Character Traits In Mary Shelley's 'Brave'

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Character Traits For Shirley

Stubborn
She repeatedly she doesn’t like the places the Claude picks. The first place Claude picks she says “I hope not.” At the second place he picks, she says “This land is the worst case of ugly i’ve ever seen.” And at the third place she said ,“This land is lumpy and makes me feel dry enough to spit cotton. She thinks all the places he picks are bad and she says bad stuff about it and all he has to say about is “I don’t know.”

Brave For her first experience of a new place she just kept trying and trying to defend herself. Though she thought she would not be able to. She stood up to a bobcat and a wolf. She thought she could do it, and that’s how she is brave. Standing up to wild animals using a snake as

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