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The Little Engine That Could Analysis
Synopsis: The Little Engine That Could tells the story of a train traveling over the mountain to deliver toys and good things to eat to all the boys and girls. The trains wheels stop and can not go any further. While the train is stopped multiple trains go past the train and make up an excuse about why they can not help the train go over the mountain. Then the little blue train comes by the broken train and helps them over the mountain even though he isn’t very big and has never gone up a mountain before. The entire way up the hill the little blue train persists on by telling himself, “I think I can, I think I can.”

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