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Comesela Invents The Zero
Eleanor Roosevelt once said “people go through experience of they meet life's honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.” For example, in the story “Abuela Invents the Zero” Constancia was rude to her Abuela and then soon realizes how she made her Abuela feel. In the poem, “Little Boy Lost, Little Boy Found” the little boy’s father walks too fast and the little boy cannot catch up so gets left behind, his father didn't hear him “supposedly”. In the non-fictional story, “Martin” Vaca judged Martin too quickly and assumed he was fat and ate a lot but what he didn’t know, is that he had a disease. Character is built by characteristics, their attitude and achievements.

In the beginning of “Abuela Invents the Zero”, Abuela comes

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