Seedfolks Character Analysis

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Seedfolks Essay

In the story of Seedfolks, a character plants some seeds and it grows in a community garden. Along the way, many other characters plant more stuff. One character was named Ana. She watched the first seed-planter, a person named Kim, and spread the word to another person named Wendell. Ana had three traits that well describe her: observant, curious, and alert.

First, Ana was observant because she kept track of what she saw over the years. A regular person would get bored and forget. She was also observant because she thought, “Why do I need TV when I have forty-eight apartment windows to watch across the vacant lot, and a sliver of Lake Erie?” I would answer, “TV is much better than windows because you can see stuff

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