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"Bicicleta" is a short story by Orson Scott Card. It appears in his short story collection Maps in a Mirror. Card originally published this story in the October 1977 issue of Friend magazine under the pseudonym Byron Walley.
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This story is about a nine-year-old Brazilian boy named Amauri. When Amauri comes home with a bicycle one day his mother is at first worried and then very happy when she discovers that the bike was given to her son by a store owner who had also give him a job delivering groceries. This means that there will be more money to buy food for the family. There is only one problem, Amauri doesn’t know how to ride a bicycle. However, when two missionaries come to the house and learn about this they decide to teach him how to ride. After three days Amauri is able to go to work at the store.
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- Amauri – Main character
- Amauri’s Mom - unnamed
- Cecilia - Amauri’s sister
- Three other children - Amauri’s other siblings
- Elder Samson – American missionary
- Elder Bonner – American missionary
[edit] Byron Walley
In the Question and Answer section of his website Orson Scott Card said that the first time he used the name Byron Walley was when he published the short story "Gert Fram" in Ensign magazine. Card did this because he had a non-fiction article “Family Art”, a poem “Looking West” and a short play "The Rag Mission" (published under the name Brian Green) appearing in the same issue.[1]
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