Direct Characterization Ellen Analysis

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Ellen is a very diffrent person from the beginning of the story to the end so in the beginning of the story ellen said “I do not want to be seen I want to be invisible” because ellen is shy and is being bullied by a girl named Dicey, she does not want to be seen.One more thing that ellen said that suports my reason for saying ellen changed is ellen said “ I use to be afraid of pigs” and so now in the beginning ellen is shy and timid and as well as quiet.

But in the end of the book ellen is so exploring and outgoing spontanious even. And ellen says this “ To Elizabeth town” “ To Elizabeth thirteen miles away” “the man whistled through the space of his teeth,” and it was brave of ellen to walk two or three miles across amboy the wrong way

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