My Body In The Comic Strip

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The comic strip my body is about a girl who thinks her body isn’t good enough to impress others. She contemplates if she should change the way she looks in order to look like the girls she sees in magazines. She is very insecure and worries about what others think. At the end of the comic strip, she comes to realize that everyone is different and that she is happy the way she looks. The girl comes to figure out that she is lucky, this is from when she says “My body is great! It walks, it runs, it jumps. It takes me where I want to go.” This is because she is worried about the smallest things, in which she should be grateful to be healthy because not everyone has it easy. I agree with her decision to appreciate her body and, allow herself to

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