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Analyzing Roald's 'Going Solo'
Imagine going for a job in Africa on a ship in very hot days. When you arrive there you lose your job because you have to go to war forced and with no experience. In the book "Going Solo" Roald talks about his friends he met on his travels. David Coke is a concern person because Roald did something wrong because on paragraph 108 it states, " never do that agin" because he almost crashed. He is also a cooperative person because on paragraph 64 it states, " Then David Coke said, 'As you don't seem to know anything at all, 'I'd better try to help you.' So he is trying to say let me teach you what to do out there. He is also concern because it states on paragraph 42, ' He could hardly be more startled If I suddenly anounced I had never been
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