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Simon Birch Persuasive Speech

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Imagine you are in a courtroom doing jury duty for a case. One table sits the characters from the book “The Scarlet Ibis.” Doodle and Brother sit together nervously wringing their hands together, while their mother, father, and Aunt Nicey sit in the audience directly behind them. At another table, the actors from the 1998 movie Simon Birch sit together. They sit content and ready to begin the trial. The two stories are in court to prove which was more valuable and taught better lessons. Today, I will persuade you that the movie, Simon Birch, taught more valuable lessons than “The Scarlet Ibis” through their symbolism and themes of each. In the movie Simon Birch, there are themes that consistently prove that there are more values and lessons
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