"Broken Wings" is not a story about first love and its failure in the heart of a young man; Rather, it has enabled us now that time has passed between Gibran Khalil Gibran writing this novel and reading it now, as Gibran faces in this story the harsh social restrictions that separate loved ones and triumph over matter at the expense of everything else. This story, which is said to be a love story that Gibran himself lived and experienced its grief, is perhaps the main reason for the growth of the seeds of rebellion within him, and for raising his philosophical questions about the world as a whole, about the nature of man, his materialistic desires, and about the love that preoccupied Gibran in everything he wrote.