The Role Of Perseverance In Ralph Fletcher's Attack

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In life, people give up. If they can’t find or do something they never do it again. They walk away with their head down and their tail between their legs thinking about what could have happend if they perserverd and kept trying. In the short story, “Attack” by Ralph Fletcher, a family’s group of roosters were attacked and went missing. The family made a plan and went on an adventrue to save there roosters. They perserverd and when they couldn’t find them at first they didn’t give up. They kept searching. This story shows perseverance. The auther shows this by making a plan to save the roosters, rebuilding their chicken coop, and most of, searching in the woods for a long time to find the roosters.
In the story the characters show perseverance

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