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Summary Of The Turtle By John Steinbeck

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In the short story titled “The Turtle,””, the author John Steinbeck defends his opinion that you should never give up even when the people around wants you to give up. Steinbeck supports his claims by using important words or phrases. The author’s purpose is to point out that the message he is sending is not hard to figure out at all. The author writes in a/an formal tone for people that don’t have a lot of confidence within themselves, or have a low self-esteem. The turtle faced multiple challenges throughout this story but I am only going to focus on three. This first challenge the turtle faced was when he came upon the highway embankment. The turtle knew that the obstacle that he was about to face would not be an easy one, but he went on
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