Don’t judge a book by its cover. Peoples reactions and personalities can deceive us. This famous saying doesn’t apply to the protagonist in the book Sahara Special by Esme Raji Codell. In the book, many people think that Sahara is not smart and that she should go back to the special needs classroom, but they don’t realize why she was there in the first place. However, to the classes astonishment, Sahara is an amazing writer.
Sahara starts off discovering and gaining new friends, but they aren't really true friends. They don't keep secrets they share them, they tell on you for the price of a reward they think they’ll get. All the characters and the different ways they respond and play the protagonist are impactful in the plot.
In my companion book, you will see and develop more understanding of the events that the author added to help create the theme of this story, see the protagonists flaws and weaknesses, and understand some of the causes and effects of a decision or reaction a character makes. These chapters are based on how people approach, and treat Sahara, and what she does about it.
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Secondly, when Miss.Pointy looks at Sahara's journal and what she has wrote over the class year, she is truly amazed with her writing ability.This shows when Miss.Pointy talks to Sahara after class.“Extraordinary! She whispered. It’s all there...What is? Your talent.” (121) Lastly,”There it was again, she was calling my name. I tried to feel my legs. They felt like two Popsicle sticks with all the Popsicle melted off.I shook my head, no.”(155) This is when Sahara got called on to share a story about how she got her name. But she said no because she was scared and felt that people wouldn't like her or they would laugh at
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The author, Marjane Satrapi, shows the details and complexities of the conflict the protagonist faced during her journey of growing up and evolving. Over all in the story the protagonist does a good job pointing out that it is a struggle before finding one’s true
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