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…showed last 75 words of 731 total…the girl. His journey also brings him to enlightenment. His enlightenment comes when he once again finds himself all alone. This discovery leads the boy to finally see, which ties in with the blindness from the beginning of the story. He realizes the vulgarity of his quest in the eyes of the church and finds that his animal desire had overwritten the teachings of the church. His realization: Like every one else. He is human.