Character Analysis Of Andrew Never Give Up In Eve Bunting's Fly Away Home

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In life, sometimes things are unfair and you just want to give up, but in the story, “Fly Away Home,” by Eve Bunting. A kid named Andrew lives in an airport with his dad. Andrew never gave up even when things got harder for him. He always kept a good attitude, he was persistent, and he is very hopeful. Even though life can be unfair sometimes, you should never give up.

One reason that Andrew never gave up was he always kept a good attitude. One way that shows that Andrew kept a good attitude was he was always able to keep his emotions together. When he saw people leave the airport all excited to go home, Andrew wanted to scream and shout, he was jealous. “What makes you so special, why do you get to go home?!” Andrew thought to himself in vain while he saw his one and only friend, Denny leave. Imagine if you lived in an airport and you had no friends, but you still kept a good attitude. My final reason is that, Andrew has to change terminals every single night, he has to sleep in a different area every night. Like I said before but imagine if you had to sleep in a different area every single night, you would be so mad and so tired of moving around, but Andrew still kept a good
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One example that shows that Andrew was persistent is he always saved money to help his dad get an apartment. He did not spend his money on stupid things like he used to. My final example that illustrates that Andrew was persistent is he works hard. He carries luggages and he returns luggage carts that people leave outside. Him and his friend Denny always offered to carry people's bags, but they only carried people’s bags when the crowd is big and safe enough.. When people left luggage carts outside, Andrew always pushed them inside and collected 50 cents. These examples really show that Andrew is really determined to get a home and do all those things to help his dad with the rent for the

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