Summary Of A Parrot In The Oven

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In A Parrot in the Oven was written by Victor Martinez to create Manny's writing strategy was dialogue, symbol and action to the main character of Manny personality was tricky, worrying, sensitive.These body strategies symbolizes that Manny has a lot personalities into his character in the Parrot in the Oven. My first writing strategies is dialogue I chosed this writing strategy because this shows that Manny is tricky and and bad telling the truth.The reason that Manny is a horrible liar about telling the truth “You think i'm lazy don't you no I lied”.This tells that Manny could be a tricky person about telling something positive to someone. But Manny’s personality tells me that he is smart person about telling something positive and not

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