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One Green Apple Character Analysis
In the story One Green Apple By Eve Bunting I think the theme is about if you are going to be different, but eventually you will blend in with the others like the green apple. Towards the end of the book she says she can taste her little green apple. Farrah says to herself “my jeans and T-shirt look like theirs, but my dupatta covers my head and shoulders, I have not seen anyone else wearing a dupatta, though all the girls and women in my home country

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