Analysis Of Who Am I Without Him By Sharon Fllakes

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In the story “Who am I without Him?” the author, Sharon Flakes put so much feelings, and life into the characters, in a way that you will feel the way the characters are feeling and at the same time, just be mad at the girl cause of the way she is. She makes bad decisions and you won’t like it, and the baddest thing of all is that Raheem is taking advance of it. Just by the scene that I read, I know that this is basically about a ghetto teenage couple, that they been having trouble in their relationship, lately.
The narrator, which in this case, is the girl, has a weakness. She lets Raheem hit her, and she doesn’t even do anything about it. “Raheem’s hand smashes the words back into my mouth, girl! Don’t make me…he says. I apologize just like

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