Lake Windsor Middle School Character Analysis

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All Paul had the desire for at Lake Windsor Middle School was to just be the goalie of the soccer team. In fact, he just wanted to play soccer in general. Paul was prepared to play soccer at the school until suddenly he was forced off because he had an IEP for his vision. Paul did everything in his power to convince the coach that he could see perfectly fine, but nothing worked. Until on major incident changed everything. We see that Paul is a character who doesn’t want to give up on something that he really wants. So when the ghastly sink hole decepted the school, the first thing in his mind after the meeting about the occurrence of the event was having a chance to go to another school and play soccer IEP-free. Even on page 93, Paul’s

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