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A Crow Knapping Character Analysis
In the stories the main conflicts has differences but even has some similarities. The difference with both conflicts is that, in “The Screech Owl Who Liked Television there trying to figure out if Yammer belong with the family or in the the wilderness. In “A Crow Knapping” the conflict is that Crowbar has to decide if he should stay with the family or leave with his kind. The similarities is that they both are internal conflicts where the characters have to decide what to do in this situation, another similarity is that they both have to do with belonging and not knowing where they belong. Those are the differences and similarities with both stories.

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