So I Aint No Good Girl By Sharon Flakes

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Without Him! Are you serious? The story is called “so I aint no good girl” by Sharon Flakes, is most about this girl struggling in her relationship because he doesn’t want to go to the school, and she doesn’t want to leave him. Well it takes place at the bus stop, and when the bus get there to pick them up they were pushing each other so that make her get in the bus without saying bye to Raheem, so when everybody was sited the bus left but the girl saw her boyfriend and her enemy which she use to call her redhead kissing at the corner. It was the worst thing she ever saw and she tried to stop the bus ,but that couldn’t be possible because the bus were running late to school, then she stared thinking in a solution, so she decide to do like she never saw that. The body of the essay will be the character in the story because it never says her name, so it has to be recognizing it as the girl. Flak uses realis tics traits and struggling to portray the character in “so I aint no good girl”. …show more content…
“yellow phlegm flies out Raheem’s mouth and on to curb, right when I walk up to him hey baby he says” In that paragraph he actually acting fake with her, so like that she cannot think what his planning or the reasons why his not going to the school . “He yells at me; did I ask you to miss class for me?” In that line he tells her to go to school because he got some stuff to do and she don’t want to do it because she does trust him, but she’s getting jealous for any reason, and threes when she say to her self “But Raheem likes girls that do what he says and don’t talk back” there she just got me thinking because why should she do that, she’s been dumb because she want to stay with him no matter what. So that’s how Raheem is with his girlfriend, but not just that there’s also why she had been mad at

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