What Is The Theme Of The Story Who Am I Without Him By Sharon Flake

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In the story “Who am I without him?” Formatted/Written by Sharon Flake, in my opinion I feel like Sharon Flake wrote this story because out there in reality there are many Relationships that are manly the same as this one in where the girl has a problem with her boyfriend and she lets her egger of love take over and she ends up making incorrect choices and stays with a guy that treats her inaccurate. The Character(s) in who am I without him?” have both weaknesses and strengths, these kinds of situations happen in everyday life, people sometimes want the person of their dreams but that person ends up being a complete Jerk but sense the love takes over they end up making poor choices to stay with that person even though they don’t treat

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