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People have reasons why they undertake a mission. They just don’t do it for the fun of it. For example, Ernesto Galarza didn’t just go to America to learn the English for nothing. He had a reason. Fare Ahmedi didn’t just cross the border from Afghanistan to Pakistan to risk getting in trouble for nothing. Buck from the Call of The Wild didn’t just survive in the wild after living in a house all his life. He had a reason. Ernesto Galarza didn’t just go to America to learn the English language and English ways the English way for nothing. The reason why he did that is because he wanted to prove a point. His point was to prove that anyone who wants to do something can do anything they want. As long as you don’t give up. “Ernesto learned how to say his first word butterfly. And I proved in a perfect imitation of mrs. Ryan.” page 7. This evidence proves that Ernesto did not give up on speaking English by perusing butterfly the exact same way she did. Fare Ahmedi didn’t just cross the border from Afghanistan to Pakistan …show more content…
The reason she did that was because she knew that she had to get her and her mom to a safe place. She knew that if she stayed on the Afghanistan border that she and her mom wouldn’t have food for the night or roof to sleep under. “ Look at that girl she is missing a leg and you can’t you can’t keep up.” This evidence proves that she was determined to get to the other side of the mountain That’s why she did what she

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