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It is the responsibility for a government to provide its people with their fundamental needs and promote a cohesive society. Needs such as food, clothing, shelter, safety, health-care and education, are all essential to a society as they are the foundation for a nation. “It was certainly by means of education that a nation came into being” (Roy, 32). Here one can see the particular and crucial role that education plays in the creation of a nation. In Gabrielle Roy’s, Where Nests the Water Hen the government fulfils it obligation to is people by providing and education to its people. It does this by providing education to everyone and everywhere, providing a good method of educating and providing education for free. Education should be provided to everyone, and therefore is an obligation of the government to provide. In Where Nests the Water Hen, the government does exactly this when Luzina receives a letter from the government saying, “It had decreed compulsory schooling before there were enough schools for all the children or roads for them to reach what schools were there.”(Roy, 31). This quote demonstrates the government’s realization of how essential education is. One can see the government’s realization o