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A Christmas Memory Character Analysis
Characterization is like a heart: If it does work well, It has more chances of beating. In “A Christmas Memory” by Truman Capote, the author wants to talk about how these two characters make a beautiful friendship in spite of their ages. In this story Capote wants, the readers they carried a good impression about her creativity and humility, she was a simple person and how she working hard to get the money. The author make see that despite her age worked hard to get the money. A quality about her is how she get the money, Capote recalls: “Holding rummage sales, selling buckets of hand picked blackberries and rounding up flowers for funerals and weddings” (pg.147). Other thing about the story is, she persevering the money: “Last summer

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