Being selfish means only caring about yourself and don’t care about other people. In both texts “Abuela Invents The Zero” and “Gombei and the Wild Ducks” there is a character being selfish. There is a common theme in the texts “Abuela Invents the Zero” and “Gombei and the Wild Ducks,” they took different approaches to show the theme. In “Abuela Invents the Zero” and “Gombei and the Wild Ducks” the theme is don’t always think about yourself. In the text “Abuela Invents the Zero,” Connie is selfish and doesn’t pay any attention to her grandmother, which hurts her grandmother’s feelings. In the story “Gombei and the Wild Ducks,” Gombei was selfish and tries to catch 100 ducks. In the stories “Abuela Invents the Zero”and “Gombei and the Wild Ducks,”
