Cotton We Got To Run Analysis

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The theme becomes evident when the main character, Charlie, and his “cousin of cousin” cotton, adventure into the woods and sugarcanes and find dead people’s bones, dead animals and scary alive people. For example, soon after they adventure into the woods, they get scared and they start to turn pale but they don’t give up and continue on with their journey to the sugarcanes. After a few minutes, Cotton picks up a dead snake but something bad is behind him. “Cotton… we got to run” (15). This does not show that much but what it means is that even if something bad is happening, like on that moment, Charlie overcomes his fear and stays calm instead of shouting and screaming and jumping around. Deeper in the story, Charlie and Cotton, decided to

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