Shrek: Personal Narrative Analysis

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Everyone has heard of the story Sleeping Beauty. Well in the movie Shrek there's kinda a sleeping beauty whose name is Princess Fiona. Then there's an ogre whose name is Shrek. In order for Shrek to save sleeping beauty a.k.a Fiona. Throughout Shrek's journey he was faced with many challenges. He was even told by his best friend (donkey) that it was stupid to try and save the princess because he had to get pass a fire breathing dragons and a bottomless bridge. Shrek knows that all odds were against him, because he himself was just a simple green ogre with a silly old donkey as a tag-along. But that never stopped him from trying .In the end he did infact beat the odds and save Princess Fiona.
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Well one day in the summer of 2014 I was at the pool with some of my friends and my mom had dropped off my 12 year old brother Keshawn and my nephew Money and asked if “ they could stay up there with me because they want to swim” . I said it was “ no problem because I’m just hanging around not doing anything really ”. So after a while it started to get cold. Just about all my my friends had gotten out of the water and now was just hanging out around the pool and my brother and nephew were still swimming around playing with the other kids. About thirty minutes had passed with us just goofing around having a good time. Some people decided that they were going to go to a party three blocks up from the pool. Me not wanting to be left out I told them that I would be up there a little later. Then some of my so called friends started teasing and making fun of my saying that i couldn't hang out because I was stuck babysitting. Which made me mad, because they were supposed to be my friends and friends don't make fun of each other to hurt the other person. But I know that I couldn't go to the party because I had promised to watch my kid brother and nephew and I wasn't going back on my word just to go to some party.But I must say that everyone didn't laugh and tease me there were a few people who stood up for

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