Saturday Climbing And Mirror Image

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Both Saturday Climbing and mirror image are stories of dealing with changes in life. In Saturday Climbing an overprotective father struggles to let her daughter make decisions for herself as she grows up and in Mirror Image a teenage girl with a recent brain transplant surgery struggles with sudden change in identity. The protagonists have different kinds of attitudes about change: in The two stories have similarities and differences between how the protagonists approach these differences. One of the similarities between both stories, Saturday Climbing and Mirror Image, are that the protagonists are insecure of the change that is taking place. In the story Mirror Image Alice, who had her brain transplanted into another girl's body, is unsure

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