Who Am I Without Him By Sharon Flake

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In the character lens of the story “Who am I without him.” Written by Sharon Flake, I
Thought that the author expressed the character lens to tell teens how reading this story
Teaches you a valuable lesson. This lesson was learned by the character Raheem, Raheem
Has a girlfriend and he is treating her terribly and he doesn’t care about her. The characters weakness in the story is that she “believes she’s ugly and that
Raheem will stop hurting her feelings. But she has a strength as well just as it was said in the story, it’s her body. “my body is my strength Raheem doesn’t want any of them other girls”. the character also has a way of being realistic by the author giving her a personality emphasized on a real teenage girl and judging on

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