Everyone Leaves: A Document Analysis

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The part of this artifact that easy for me was writing the essay, a challenge in this artifact was keeping up with the class when reading Everyone Leaves. I think this is because I have always enjoyed writing and disliked reading ever since I learned how to read and write. In my essay I write “Living in Cuba has resulted with Nieve feeling trapped and unable to leave; however, she also feels uncontent with her lifestyle in Cuba due to all the struggles she has endured there.” This statement reflects the essential question why do people leave? Why do people stay? because Nieve feels like she is in a lonely situation that she cannot leave and does not want to. At the beginning of highschool I didn’t know how to write a TIED paragraph and

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