Answer:
"I kept telling myself, "Pull yourself together, pull yourself together," so I wouldn't cry".
Step-by-step explanation:
This is the best example of her personal theme because in this excerpt she is talking about her feelings and how she was feeling during her evacuation to Cornwall.
- She is describing what she was saying to herself because she did not want to cry in those moments. She was calming herself with the words ''Pull yourself together'' which she was repeating constantly.
Evacuation to Cornwall happened in Word War II and many people that survived were talking about it with hard feelings.