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In Camera By El Saadawi And Bernardino By Matute

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The two stories I choose to write about in this post is “In Camera” by El Saadawi and “Bernardino” by Matute. In both of these stories, the main character’s show courage in one form or another. In the story “In Camera”, Leila is sitting in trial for a crime she did for speaking out against her kind and her country. Before the trial, she was sitting in prison getting beaten and raped by the guards there. She shows courage in this story because she called out the king and the government for being so corrupt. She does this knowing that she will be put in jail and suffer a terrible fate. Even after all of this, she still shows courage for not giving up on life and facing the trial that awaits her, just so she can confront the government some more

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