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Similarities Between The Girl Born With Only 2 Arms And 2 Legs By Stuart Bum
Have you ever been treated differently because of how you look? Quarta, the main character in “The Girl Born With Only 2 Arms and 2 Legs” By Stuart Baum, gets treated as if she is different, but the truth is that she isn't different, she just looks different. People think, just because she can't do things, that they can't do what they have a problem. Well they don't and they get underestimated by her ability. And this tell us don't underestimate others by how they look. Someone once said “Those who know me never doubt me and those who doubt me never knew me.”

When you're different it can be very hard. Especially when your underestimated by how you look. And you’re always the one who stands out in the crowd. Well Quarta has the same problems, when she is trying to get through her school years. She has to face that she doesn't have a lot of friends to hang out with. And personally that would be hard because my friend are the ones who help me through life. To make matters, when her friends to invite her places she know that she is different and it says in the text that, “ Her friends would all go out together and they would invite her. But , she knew she was too different to be consider a girlfriend
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It's hard enough to be treated differently by the other kids but the teacher. For example she had to get fed like a baby but the teacher when all the other kids get to catch their food. If I was Quarta I would feel embarrassed because you are the only one who is being treated like a baby. In addition, Quarta has to get special permission to go on a field trip. Because the teacher are scared something bad will happen during the trip. Then when she does get to go she gets made fun of, because she saved a kid named kako from the tidal pool. Then everyone was teasing kako for being saved by the “ freak” which made kako mad and not Quarta's friend and that all she wanted, was to made a

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