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Quarta In 'The Girl Who Was Born With Only Two Legs'
Imagine being born with only 2 arms and 2 legs that must be a real struggle, poor Quarta.In the story, The Girl Who Was Born With Only 2 Arms And 2 Legs by Stuart Baum Ouarta is Optimistic. She is optimistic because she is determined to not seem different, She is kind and Resilient. All of these qualities make Quarta optimistic The first reason Quarta is optimistic is she is Determined not to seem different. First of all she looks past her arms and legs, when she goes to lunch when they have to catch their food she tries to catch some of it so she looks past her disability and tries. She also made a game everybody can play for example, when she made a game she could play you would have to put aside your differences to make the game. I think that you have to be really busy to make that game rather than worry about how you are different.Another evidence is that she tries to do stuff by herself for example, when she tried to save kako she wanted to do it by herself even though she has only 2 arms and 2 legs. That was the first reason Quarta is optimistic. …show more content…
Because she tries to make everybody friends in the story Quarta made a game everyone could play and everyone would be nice to each other so that means she wants people to be nice and be friends. Also she saved Kako in the story “Quarta knew where he was. She saw him sneak off to watch some of the animals on the sand.” “ I’ll go back and find him” right there Quarta was being kind to go and find him.” Wanting to be helpful ,climbed to the edge of the rock [using just only two legs and two arms! Can you imagine] and reached down to grab Kako.” so that was really kind of her to go and save Kako. Quarta let everybody play the game that she made up, She could've said to the mean kids go you don’t get to play, but instead of saying that she said “ This league is open to all players.” even the ones that made fun of her. That was the second reason Quarta is

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