So I Aint No Good Girl Sharon Fllake Analysis

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In the story “So I ain’t no good girl” by Sharon Flake, I felt the author wrote about a real girl because of the situation that the character was in and it might had happened in her life and maybe telling us through the character’s action, The situation just sound like a real teenage girls problems brought to real life. In the “So I ain’t no good girl” story, The girl is used by her boyfriend. He takes her money, he hooks up with other girls and he doesn’t care about her. The girl really cares and she is in love with him, she will do anything for him but she is rude to people and she begins to bully on straight A students just because she is dating Raheem she begins to think that she can do anything she wants but must of all she

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