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Character Analysis: The Marble Champ
Have you ever wanted to win something and you want to give up,but you keep on trying even though you just want stop doing that thing and never trying it again.That was how Lupe Medrano felt in the story “The Marble Champ” by Gary Soto.Lupe is good at mostly anything except for sports.She has won several spelling bees,has never missed a day of school (Except for when she got stung by a bee in Kindergarten),and she has her own shelf in her room built for all of her awards that she had won.Then on a rainy day,she wanted to win something to do with sports.Lupe said “I wish I could be good at something,anything, even marbles!”Lupe knew she would have to keep going and never give up because then she would reach her goal and be good at a sport.Lupe
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