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Analyzing Tj's Short Story 'Antaeus' By Borden Deal

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Many people are natural born leaders, of which they fight for a cause. Not everyone has to have such an impactful dream or goal for everyone to have. Some may want equality for a race or gender like women’s suffrage or the civil rights movement. Others prefer to have smaller goals like less homework of school time. People speak but not all get heard. In the short story Antaeus by Borden Deal, he uses TJ to show how unique individuals can inspire people and make them dedicated only to have authority figures destroy their goal. First off, TJ’s unique characteristics are the driving force to make the narrator and his gang work for a common goal they think they would never achieve. The narrator brings a recent mover to meet his circle of friends.

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