Thea Tupac Analysis

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Thea is a teenager trying to find her own identity as biracial person. She is half white and half African American girl living in affluent neighborhood .She is attending a privileged high school as sophomore and is part of the school’s mostly white cheerleading team instead of the mostly black dance team.
Thea gives a vivid description of what happened after she learned about Tupac’s death in Las Vegas when she got home from cheerleading practice in Friday afternoon in September 1996 in Mill Valley, California. The author’s dominant impression is trying to convey feelings of nostalgia and sentimentality when she was a teenager. When Tupac died she mourned his death and still mourns him now since according to her his music represents the years

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