Ali displays qualities of love and patience. give evidence from the story to support the statement
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Ali was an epitome of love and patience. His life changed dramatically towards the evening of his life. His only child, Miriam married and left him. She went off with a soldier into his regiment in Punjab. This left Ali forlorn and devastated. He was completely transformed.
He stopped hunting partridges and hares. His heart became filled with pain of separation from his daughters. Now he lived only to get a news of his daughter. He became quite sensitive to omnipresent love all around. He lived with single purpose; and that purpose was to receive a letter from his daughter. For five years he regularly went to the post-office without getting a single letter from his beloved daughter. Only a man of patience could do that! Alas, he died without receiving any letter from his daughter!
There are many instances given in the story of ali displaying qualities of love and patience. He visited the post office every single day during the last 5 years of his life to enquire about a letter from his daughter miriam,even tho no letter came. This shows his patience and love for his daughter.
He bore taunts and insults hurled at him by the staff of the post office. Finally when he was dying still he didn't lose hope and gave a large amount of money to one of the workers to ensure that the letter from his daughter is placed at the top of his grave.