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Character Analysis Of Gary Soto Lupe In The Story 'Marble Champ'
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Being determined to reach your goals is very hard to handle but if you try hard and practice a lot you can overcome anything that comes your way. In the story “Marble Champ” by Gary Soto Lupe is a young girl who wanted to be like every other kid at her school be good at sports. But lupe was not good at sports. Then one day she finds a sport she can play and she is determined to reach her goals by being smart, gaining confidence, and working really hard to be the best at that sport. She never gives up even if the hardest things get in her way.
Lupe is determined to reach her goals by being smart. Lupe is smart because she never gave up practicing when it was really hard. On the other hand she is smart because in one of her matches
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