Analysis Of Barrio Boy, The Other Side Of The Sky, And Call Of The Wild

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Taking on a mission

Have you ever had to take on a mission? In the stories Barrio Boy, The Other Side of the Sky, and Call Of The Wild, the role models are Ernesto Galarza, Farah Ahmedi, and Buck. They all had to take on a mission. In their own ways they all had difficult tasks to undertake.

In Barrio Boy, Ernesto Galarza was learning how to speak English. It was difficult for him because he came from Mexico only knowing how to speak Spanish. He had private lessons with his teacher. He started out trying to pronounce butterfly, but instead he said ¨butterflee¨ Then after practice Ernesto was able to copy every sentence his friends and teacher said. ¨I was soon able to match Itoś progress as a sentence reader with ¨Come, butterfly, come

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