Analysis Of Fly Away Home By Eve Bunting

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Life is not about money because not everyone has money. I really think you can learn from the story “Fly Away Home” by Eve Bunting because in the story the main character, Andrew, is very determined to get a house .I think you should stay determined because life is harder than it looks and, Andrew is very willing in the story. In the story they stay at airports because they are very poor and they really “want A apartment so they” can live in a house but that is hard without money because in my own personal response .I was kinda in that same position but I did not live at an airport i lived in a house but we was low on money but we saved up more and more money so that we could move which I did and I felt very determined. To

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