House Of The Red Fish Bedrooms: Loyalty Or Family

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Loyalty, is a strong feeling of support or allegiance, also it is a feeling that is hard to find in the world we are live in right now, there is just so many shames going around in this world. How ever, in the early life, the main character of the book 《 House of the Red Fish》, either Tomi’s friends or family showed loyalty to Tomi. The first example, Tomi’s friend, Billy, Rico amd Mose, they are Tomi’s best friends, they help Tomi to bring up his papa’s Tayo Maru. Keet, is the enemy of Tomi, he doesn’t want Tomi to success, he will bullying Tomi sometimes. But they are real friends, Billy, Rico and Mose did not leave Tomi, they choose to protect or to got hit together, did not leave Tomi along. Next will be Tomi’s family, especially

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