Camels Quotes

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This story has many quotes of this family and explains how their home was back where they use to live. The most effective quote was,”They wanted to know about more important things, such as camels. How many did we own back home? What did we feed them? Was it a bumpy ride?” This shows what kind of home land they came from and how it was different. It means that that they came from a poor family and they were foreign.
It showed how her childhood was in different ways. She said,”I always disappointed them by admitting that I had never seen a camel in my entire life”(page 90, paragraph 5). Everyone thought because she was foreign that she wouldn’t have a car and had to ride camels and that she couldn’t afford to feed the animals. They always

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