Difference Between Saboteur And Barbi Q

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Over the semester we have read a lot of short stories, the four that stuck out to me the most were Saboteur, Where have you been, Where are you going?, and Barbi- Q. Each story is has its own reflection like what I learned about myself, what I learned about other people, and what I learned about the world. What I learned about myself in Saboteur was not to let people get under my skin like Mr. Chiu let the cops under his skin when they threw the hot soup at him. You have to be the better person and not try and make a point because in the end you may not even get your point across just because the other people might be better than you. Where are you going, Where have you been? is the story that I picked for what I learned about others because

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