So I Ain T No Good Girl Flake Analysis

Exposing the Mask “People say things about me. Bad things. Momma says I give’em reason to. That if I would just be a good girl…then things wouldn’t go so hard on me. But I don’t wanna be like them girls…I wanna be me”. The narrator in Flake’s story was waiting for Raheem at the bus stop beside some girls on her block. When he came, Raheem told the narrator to leave without him. While they were talking, a redhead girl on her block was flirting with Raheem. Finally, the bus came, and the Narrator went in, but then saw the redhead girl standing next to Raheem. The narrator saw them kissing and that hurts her. In the story, “So I Ain’t No good Girl”, Flake gave the readers the characteristics and personality, and how it affects their lives in the story. Raheem is the antagonist in the story. It described him as a controlling boyfriend in descriptive words. “Raheem likes girls that do what he says and don’t talk back.” He also told the narrator that he wants a “cooperative woman. Not a whole lot of drama.” This brings out that Raheem is a disrespectful person and wants to change people to something that only he likes. It seems that, Raheem was disguising to be a perfect boyfriend, but we saw the real him and removed it to see his …show more content…
“…The good girl…comes back to our side of the street…she looks his way and smiled. He smiled. She winks.” According to the text, the narrator represented what she saw and gave us clues that the redhead girl was actually, a bad girl. As a matter of fact, the narrator and Flake knew the girl was up to no good. “She was a good girl too, so they say…You’d figure a girl like that wouldn’t be a thief. But she was. She stole my man…” The narrator knew the redhead girl had a mask on in the beginning. In addition, it also expresses the narrator because she knew that she couldn’t trust the redhead girl when she saw