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Character Analysis: Fly Away Home By Eve Bunting
What do you think of when I say the word brave? Maybe saving a life, achieving a goal, maybe making a change in the world. Well, you don’t have to do these things to be brave, you can just work through stuff. Andrew and his companions in the story Fly Away Home by Eve Bunting, they are brave because they have no home. They live in an airport, and they don’t have enough money to buy an apartment. But even though it’s hard, they keep on pushing. When Andrew and his companions are faced with difficulties, they don’t give up because it gets hard.

One reason why Andrew and his companions don’t give up is they don’t have enough money. For example, they want to buy an apartment because they are tired of living in the airport, but it is too expensive.

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