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Separation from their original home was one of the many past events that caused tensions and turmoil in the midst of a father and his two daughters. While each individuals thoughts ab come forth each other fluxuated between both positive and negative, one thing remained constant through out the progression of the poem, the ever enduring presence of religion, faith and its beliefs. Religion has always had a place in the life of Vito and his family, he had his own ways of victimization his faith to comfort himself as well as his own visions on what a heaven would be to him, while his daughter also held a dependable faith in religion. Just as the weak Mimosa plant needs support to grow or face death, each of Vito&8217s daughters , curiously Lucia, has attached themselves to a faith, a religion to support and help themselves through life. Vito like many, have found a place for his faith. He believed that a square heaven would be back in his homeland, back in the garden that he cared for so dearly. This garden in fact acted like his own garden of Eden. For his character was like that of the tender Mimosa plant, which when faced with the slightest touch or trouble from an outside source, would recoil its leaves and take a defense position cheeseparing to the garden that it grew within. Vito would retreat to this garden to escape the troubles of the outside world when they became unbearable. He describes the garden to us as&8220The garden that kept them little children even as adultsThis could be taken as that it did not actually affect Vito physically young but rather it altered him mentally. He would become like pass and Eve before evil and like that of a young child, all ignorant of all troubles. Complexity and all other dilemma&8217s that plagued their lives. So in this garden he would escape his troubles through the means of ignoring them and not acknowledging their existence and thus a bit closer to peace, and less degrees of separation between himself an d his God. Though his daughters once also voiceed him in his &8220light, in essence his garden, it is said that his daughter, Lucia (an cleaver metaphor of Lucifer?) Is that of a luckless fallen angle, refusing to join him in his light. Lucifer himself was a fallen angle, and now Lucia clutches to