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First things first, both text’s used character development to show the theme “friendship prevails over everything.” In “Amigo Brothers”, you can find, “ No matter what the decision, they knew they would always be champions to each other.” This shows that their freindship has grown stronger and their bond has become more inseperasble due to this fight and that showed that winning didn’t matter. They did not want a winner to decide the fate of their freindship .Also in the other text to show Character Development is, “... They were old and poor

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Both of the texts, “Amigo Brothers” and “The Friendship Orchard” develop the common theme cherish your friendship above everything else, using the strategy of charachter development.

Backround info: The text “Amigo Brothers” is about two friends who have to compete in a boxing match that may affect their friendship. The text “Friendship Orchard” is about two friends that work on a farm. They find gold and argue on who should have it and realized that their friendships is worth more than the gold.

Big Idea 1: Character development is used in the text “ Amigo Brothers”.

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Claim: Both texts Amigo Brothers and “The Friendship Orchard” use character development to develop the theme of cherish your friendship above everything else.

Background Information: In “Amigo Brothers”, two best friends have to fight each other, but in the end, they didn’t care who the winner was, they stayed together no matter what. In “The Friendship Orchard”, two elderly people discover a chest full of gold and argue about who gets it, but they instead use it unselfishly.

Big idea: Character development played a huge role in the development of the common theme of cherish your friendship above everything else in both “Amigo Brothers” and “The Friendship Orchard”.

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The authors of both text such use the authors craft strategy of character development although in similar and different ways.

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In “Amigo Brothers” two best friends have to fight to win the title of champion.
In “The Friendship Orchard” two friends discover a conflict that could tear their friendship apart.

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Big Idea 1: By using the strategy of character development in ‘Friendship Orchard’, the reader is informed of the characteristics of Kurai and Dau, which helps the reader understand their friendship better, and how and why it will always prevail.

Big Idea 2: In the story ‘Amigo Bothers’, plot events are used to show how Antonio and Felix don’t let a fight that could change their career get in the way of their friendship. This helps the reader understand how much they would do for each other, therefore developing the common theme.

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In “friendship orchard” two farmers named dau and kurai have many challenges and face them together. And in “amigo brothers” two boxers that are best friends have to face each other in an epic fight.

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In the text “Friendship Orchard”, the author uses plot events while “Amigo Brothers”,  utilizes character development to develop the theme that friendship always prevails everything.
The narrative story, “Friendship Orchard”, is about two elderly friends who fight on who should get the gold that one of them found. On the other hand, “Amigo Brothers” is about two childhood friends who find out they have to box against each other in order to represent their community in the Golden Gloves Tournament.

The author of “Friendship Orchard” utilizes different situations throughout the story in order to reveal the theme for the readers.

In contrast to “Friendship Orchard”, “Amigo Brothers” provides insight in the development of Antonio and Felix.

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In both texts "Amigo Brothers" by Piri Thomas and "The Friendship Orchard" by Pleasant DeSpain, use the strategies character development and plot events to reveal the theme that friendship prevails over everything. The story "Amigo Brothers" is about Felix and Antonio; two best friends who are competing in a match. Then the story "The Friendship Orchard" is about two men deciding on problems in life.

The strategies character development and plot events are used in both texts to show the theme that friendship prevails over anything.

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Although in both texts, the theme of friendship prevails over everything was developed, in "Amigo Brothers," this theme was revealed using plot events, while in "Frienship Orchard," character development was used to develop the common theme.
In "Amigo Brothers," there are two friends who have to fight against each other in the Golden Gloves tournament, which might be the end of there friendship. Likewise, in "Friendship Orchard," two old friends have an argument, about who gets the gold that they found on their farm.

Big Idea 1: In "Amigo Brothers," plot events is used to develop the theme.

Big Idea 2: However, in "Friendship Orchard, a different strategy, character development, is used to reveal the same theme.

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Claim: Although the texts “Amigo Brothers” and “Friendship Orchard” both develop the common theme friendship prevails over everything else, “Amigo Brothers” uses character development while “Friendship Orchard” uses plot events.

Background information: “Amigo Brothers” is about 2 boys named Antonio and Felix who are best friends but have to go up against eachother in a boxing match to determine who would go to the championship. “Friendship Orchard” is about two old and poor friends named Kurai and Dau who own land and found gold. Instead of being greedy they share their joy of friendship through an orchard.

Our big ideas would be: the “Amigo Brothers” strategy, which is character development, developing the theme and the “Friendship Orchard” strategy, which is plot events, developing the theme.

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Claim:Both the texts “Friendship Orchard” and “Amigo Brothers” use the same strategy of plot events to develop the similar theme, that friendship prevails over anything.

Background info: Amigo brothers is about two friends that see each other as brothers, but have to fight each other in a boxing match that might affect their relationship. In friendship orchard, two elderly friends own a farm, and find wealth which was hard

Big Idea 1:

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The two stories, “Amigo Brothers” and “Friendship Orchard” both develop the common theme of friendship prevails over anything. Although they develop the same theme, “Amigo Brothers” uses character development and “Friendship Orchard” uses plot events. In “Amgio Brothers” two best friends, Felix and Antonio who consider themselves to be Brothers, have to go face to face in a serious boxing match, without breaking their Friendship. But in “Friendship Orchard” two poor elderly men who are best friends, Kurai and Dau, find a chest of gold on their farm, and they have to decide who gets to keep it.

Big Idea 1: The characters of Felix and Antonio develop through the text as their friendship bonds grow stronger, ultimately revealing that nothing could break their friendship
Big Idea 2:  In contrast, unlike Amigo Brothers, the events in “Friendship Orchard” shows that friendship is more important than possession.

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Claim:  Both of the texts, ‘Amigo Bothers’ and ‘Friendship Orchard’,  share a similar theme that friendship prevails through any obstacles, However, ‘Amigo Brothers’ uses the strategy of plot events, and ‘Friendship Orchard’ uses the strategy of character development.

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In both the texts “Amigo Brithers” and “The Friendship Orchard” The authors use the strategy of character development to develop the theme that, cherish your friendships above anything else.
Background information : Amigo Brothers is a story about 2 close friend who go against each other in a division final championship boxing competition. On the other hand, the friendship orchards is about two poor men who found riches in their field, and used it to make an orchard.

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Using the same strategy of character development both stories create a similar theme of cherish your friendship over anything else.
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Even though in both stories the characters went into tough times they still kept their amazing friendship.

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The texts titled “Amigo Brothers”, and “Friendship Orchard” both use the strategy of character development in order to develop the theme that your friendship should be cherished above everything else. Amigo Brothers is about two boxers that are good friends that must face each other in a boxing match. Friendship Orchard, however, is about two friends that find treasure and must figure out what to do with it.
Big Idea: In amigo brothers and fiendship orchard, character development is a core part in developing how the friends find their friendship to have a high significance, through their specific character thoughts and actions.

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Although both texts, Amigo Brother and Friendship Orchard share a common strategy of character development to develop the theme, cherish your friendship above everything else, they use different ways of developing the characters.

In both texts, two friends realize that their friendship is more important than gold or a boxing title.

Big Idea- In Amigo Brothers the author uses actions to develop the characters unlike Friendship Orchard which uses affection towards their friend.

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Both texts “Amigo Brothers” and “The Friendship Orchard” develop a similar theme to cherish your friendship above everything else by using different strategies, plot events and character development. These two texts are about two different friendships that are going through conflicts which are causing complications between the two main characters. In the text “Amigo Brothers”, the author uses the strategy character development to bring up a common theme. However in “The Friendship Orchard” the author uses the plot events developed throughout the story to bring up the common theme to cherish your friendship over everything else.