My Superpowers Dan Greenburg Analysis

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In the story My Superpowers by Dan Greenburg, the bullying incident impacted his later life by writing a story of a kid like him with superpowers against a bully named Vernon Manteuffel. On page
17, paragraph 12 it states "Maximum boy is me but with superpowers". This quote states the claimb because the claim was that he wrote a story with him and his superpowers in Chicago and this quote explained what he wrote . Another piece of evidence from paragraph 13 it states "In the Zack Files I created stupid fat kid who sweats a lot and thinks he is cool, but who everyone laughs at him behind his back". This quote supports the claim, because the bully's name is Vernon Mateuffel , and the boy who bullied him back then is named Vernon Manteuffel.

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