Somebody Please Tell Me Who I Am Character Analysis

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(TS) Ben's, younger brother Chris,in Somebody Please Tell Me Who I Am is a person who cares a about his older brother that is in war and could get hurt at any second .(C) Therefore, Chris is a loving person who tries to protect his brother as much as he can.(E) While cleaning up Chris’s birthday party his family got a call when Chris,“ who had been manipulating a Rubik's cube that someone had given him, piped up,traumatic brain injury’’ (Mazer 45).proves that Chris cares about Ben because stopped what he was doing to find out what happened to Ben .(R)This show Chris is loving because he is autistic and was focussing on his rubik's cube at the time he was told about Ben’s injury and he was concerned. (CS) Therefore, out of all the characters

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