How Does Ella's Character Change

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In the book The fate of ten by Pittacus Lore, the main character, Ella, changes throughout the book due to the full out war between the Loric and Mogadorians.
Although Ella was young, she still changed in many ways throughout the book. Before the war began, she was weak and didn’t believe in herself much. “Ella’s eyebrows are scrunched, like she’s not sure how to describe what she’s seen” (Lore 99). Ella has these powers called legacies that help her talk to people in their head, like telepathy, but it’s a new concept to her, so she doesn’t quite know how to use them or describe them yet. She is trying her best to help her friends, but she can’t quite get everything under control enough for her to do so. She thinks she is to weak to do what

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