Ernesto Galarza

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All these characters have persevered and taken risks in their own ways. Ernesto Galarza, from Barrio Boy, Farah Ahmedi, from The Other Side of the Sky, and Stanley Pearce, from “Call of the Klondike” are all different people with different goals. Farah Ahmedi wanted to leave Afghanistan because of the war, Ernesto moved to America and a new school and wanted to learn english, and Stanley wanted to find gold and he did not give up until he got the gold. Despite all the struggles they went through they all took risk and did not give until they achieved their goal.

Ernesto Galarza was a Mexican-American young boy that was an immigrated to California and he had to adapt to the public school system. Ernestos goal was to learn English and

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