Helen Keller is a powerful role model because she resused to give up even when faced with extreme physical disabilities.
When none of the characters are true, but the setting may be true, and what happens in the story actually happened in real life (at least some- most of it)
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The piece of equipment that saves his life is in fact his woven mail shirt.
(Sources: http://csis.pace.edu/grendel/projf981d/analysis.html)
I believe it’s free verse if it’s a poem.
