Duck Song Interpretation

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If you have ever heard of or watched the “Duck Song”, you know about the crazy annoying duck featured in this song. If you have not heard of this song, it is an animated song video you can watch about a duck who for no reason in particular, really wants grapes. He keeps going to a man who is running a lemonade stand and the duck keeps asking him for grapes. Even though the man keeps insisting he has no grapes, each day the duck comes and asks for them. At the end, the duck gets what he wants because the man brings him to the store for grapes-- which shows that with enough determination, you can get what you want. The theme of determination in shown in a short story called “Raymond’s Run” by the author Toni Cade Bambara, about a persevering

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