The Amazing Powers Of Jen Bricker Analysis

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Jen Bricker can be such an inspiration. She did things that even people with legs can't do. imagine doing gymnastics with no legs. Helen Keller once wrote "Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.” The story "The Amazing Powers Of Jen Bricker" by Kristen Lewis can show what that quote means because Jen Bricker has no legs but she still looked past it and she could do gymnastics. So did the poem "Can't" by Edgar Albert Guest because when people think they can’t, they have to say I can.

The article “The Amazing Powers Of Jen Bricker” by Kristen Lewis really did show the quote "Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.” Jen Bricker was rejected from both of her parents because she had no legs and got put

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