The Egypt Game Character Analysis

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In the story The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatly Snyder;one of the main characters known as the Professor faces change throughout the story. The main change in this story is when his wife passed away. This caused him to stop doing his profesion as an egytian archiologist and move into his wifes shop. There he would live and run the tiny little shop but with no care. For example; he stoped importing and exporting good, did not maintain the store upkeep. Due to the situition bussiness is at its all time low. People in the town felt that the Professor was hidding something in the shadowes in his own stores. For example were his tiny shop was the street were empty no kids or sounds. This never gave the Professor a chance to show the town who

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