Wilma Unlimited Stylistic Analysis

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Never Give Up

Have you ever read Henry’s Freedom Box and Wilma Unlimited? There are similarities and differences in how the author approaches the theme “Never Give Up” in the two texts. I hope you can see how the authors’ approaches to the theme is similar, but also very different. The authors of both texts approach the theme “Never give up” similarly. For example, Henry and Wilma ended up happy because they never gave up. The author stated that Henry never gave up so he got out of slavery. In Wilma Unlimited, Wilma never stopped trying to walk, which resulted in her becoming an Olympic runner. Also in both books, Henry’s Freedom Box and Wilma Unlimited, Henry and Wilma had problems with slavery and segregation. In Henry’s Freedom Box the

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