Louis Braille And It Couldn T Be Done

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The passage “ Louis Braille” and in the poem “ It Couldn't Be Done” both show perseverance in two different ways. In the passage “ Louis Braille” the author uses Louis’s disability to show perseverance by showing that even if he became blind that , that does not mean he couldn't do anything with the rest of the time he had to live. In the poem “ It Couldn’t Be Done” the author sues dout to show how he/she keeps going no matter what anyone says or tells he/she. In the passage “ Louis Braille” Louis sadly lose his eyesight by hitting himself in the eye with one of his dads tools. His eye soon gets infected and that infection spread to the other eye and this is when he became blind. Even though Louis became blind he still went out with his

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