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People undertake missions all the time, but why do they do that? In The Song of Wandering Angus, Angus sees the girl of his dreams but the she vanishes, he destined to find her. In The Call of the Klondike, Stanley wanted to find gold and get rich, he goes on a dangerous stamped. In The Other Side of the Sky, Farah wanted to get to freedom, even with her prosthetic leg. As you can see people undertake mission by having faith and courage which gives them hope and strength.

In The Song Of Wandering Angus, Angus sees the girl of his dreams but she vanishes ''It had become a glimmering girl with apple blossom in her hair who called me by my name and ran who faded through the brightened air.'' Angus says he will find where she’s gone and he is already planning his future with her." I will find out where she has gone, and kiss her lips and take her hands; and walk among long dappled grass, and I will pluck till time and times are done,''

In The Call of the Klondike, Stanley and Marshall wanted to strike rich by gold mining. As they were in Klondike they went on a stamped in the middle of the night. ''...we started in pitch darkness...'' The
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Farah lost her leg when she was seven from stepping on a land mine and has a prosthetic leg now. She eagerly wanted herself and her mother to be free from this city so they went to the gate which is the Pakistani border but couldn't get through. '' The gate to Pakistan was closed, and I could see that the Pakistani border guards were letting no one through.'' Farah's mother met a woman that would try and help them get to freedom but she had to ask her husband, who then took pity on them and let them come with them. ''His wife then told him our story, and Ghulam Ali took pity on us. 'Yes of course you can some with us,' he said.'' He helped them get to freedom with him even though they were

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