Show And Tell Analysis

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The narrator of this story is Robert Quentin Mitchell who is a person who afraid to get in trouble. He is a student of Mr.K. In Mr.K’s class, students had to do the oral presentation that also called “ Show and Tell”. In a day that near the end of the semester, Mr. K brought a new student called Cao Long Dinh. He is Vietnamese refugee and doesn’t speak any English. So, Mr.K told Robert to take care about him. After that, Robert started to know more about Cao, taught him some English, and told him something about the school. In the lunch time, Billy who like to bully the other classmates cut in the line and said something to them, when they were in the line. Then, Robert fighted him back extraordinarily. While they were arguing, a girl who

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