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How Is The Unflappable Boy Alike
The passages Unflappable boy and The Flight are similar in some ways. Although, they do have many differences. The Flight was an excerpt from HMH Journeys and so was the Unflappable Boy. The Flight was written by J.M. Barrie. Unflappable Boy was written by anonymous.

In the Unflappable Boy the boy was imagining he was flying(he wasn’t really flying). It is a poem. He also was accompanied by his pet dog. In addition to the dog, he imagined the clouds and wind were calling him to flap his “wings” and fly. The boy tried to fly by flapping his “wings” although they were featherless and much heavier than bird wings.

In the story The Flight Peter Pan was really flying.He doesn’t need wings to fly. Peter was flying with three other people. He had

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