Individuality has been shown in "No Gumption" by showing the traits and the characteristics of Russell Baker that his mother realized which made him a writer. One of that situation was when he was eleven years old, he brought a text graded with A and his mother decided he could be a writer
<u>Explanation:</u>
"No Gumption" is a chapter taken from autobiography of Russell Baker where he tells how for his mother he did not have gumption at all, he was a shy boy who had to help his family in a difficult time, after his father's death. In this chapter, the writer is in the obligation of selling magazines to support his family, but the decision was made by his mother, because he was the man of the family and he was superposed to bring some money.
Unfortunately he was not like his younger sister Doris, who was intelligent and diligent. He had this job during a time, but he did not succeed, he did not feel comfortable ringing doors, actually, he felt scared of this. Finally, when he was eleven years old, he brought a text graded with A and his mother decided he could be a writer, and this time he liked this decision, because writers did not have to sell, writers did not have to ring doors.
Answer: He had a dream in which a child told him to seek treasure in the Egyptian pyramids.
Explanation:
The Alchemist is a novel written by Paulo Coelho. It features a boy named Santiago who travels in search of a treasure.
Every time Santiago sleeps under a sycamore tree, he has the same dream: a child tells him to go and find treasure at the foot of the Egyptian pyramids. Santiago tells a fortune teller about this dream, and she encourages him to go to Egypt. He takes her at her word and heads towards Egypt.
