The Nutcracker Research Paper

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A girl named Felice and her best friend who is a boy named Victor are orphans. They plan that that night, they would escape to Paris.
When they made it to Paris, Victor falls off the bridge, so Felice is left alone. She walks around and finds the dance school she and Victor were talking about before they left Paris. Along the way, Felice finds a caretaker named Odette who used to be a ballerina. Then one day, when the mail came for a girl named Camille she took it so instead she could go to the dance school. Odette trained Felice every day so she could get the part in the Nutcracker. Every day there will be a girl leaving the dance school, so it was really painful and scary. Felice was really bad and the dance teacher said she would be out the first time but
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Eventually, all the girls got out and she was kept so she got the Nutcracker part! But, she didn't because the real Camille came and the story of Felice stealing her identity came out. But because of how hard working she was, she got to stay so she could still get the part in the Nutcracker if she beat out Camille. She practiced hard every day but the night before the auditions she went out on a date and didn't practice. The next day, she failed the auditions so Camille got the part. They then did a dance battle and when they were done, they were right in front of the dance teacher and he asked: "Why do you dance?". Camille answered: "Because... Because my mom makes me." but Felice answers: "Because dancing was with me my whole life, it's what it makes me". Between the answers, we

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