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Similarities Between Boy And Victor
Have you ever been so sick that you think you are going to die? Or even Liked someone so much for the first time that you are so scared to talk to the person you like? In both of the stories stolen day and 7th grade the characters the boy and victor are both similar and different. The boy is confused and sad while victor is very silly and nervous and shy. They also have problems that are same and different. Victor really likes a girl in his class and the boy is sick with a disease that he doesn't have but he thinks he has. Victor and the boy have to come up with a way to get rid of these fears or to just face it and move on.

Victor and the boy have to kinda face their fears. They both have a way same and different fears. They both are really nervous about their fears and they are also different like how Victor is shy while the boy is scared. Both of these problems have never happened to them before and they don't know what to do about them and they are really confused. Victor has never fallen in love and the boy thinks he has a disease.
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Victor finally talks to the girl and the boy finally tells his family that he thinks that he is sick. The girl that Victor likes wants him to help her with french and Victor doesn't know french and in class not try to impress people by trying to speak a language that you don't know. The boy tells his family about his sickness and they laugh at him and they think he is crazy. At the end of both stories they finally face their fears and they did what they needed to do. The moral of this paragraph is that you can't hide your fears you have to get rid of them you can never ignore what you think is

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