Compare And Contrast Checkouts And The Girl Who Can

In both stories, “Checkouts”, and “The girl who can” they both have dynamic female characters. Each of the girls have there own type of internal struggle, and both of them have a fear of rejection. Ajoa is scared that her grandmother is going to laugh at her or scold her for something she may, say or do, and her grandmother thinks that her legs are to skinny. The girl in “Checkouts”, is scared to talk to the bag boy that she thinks she is in “love” with. Each of the girls face their problems in different ways, but each of them end up resolving their problems.

In the story Checkouts,it is told in third-person omniscient, point of view. This means that the narrator is all knowing, and he or she knows how everyone feels and knows what they are thinking. The main character is in Cincinnati, she has just recently moved there, leaving her whole life behind. She is most likely trying to fill the void of her friends that she left behind. She most likely would not have fallen in “love” if she had not just move, away from

Since everything is known there is nothing that is held back or unknown. This makes sure that everything that is said, is very reliable. We understand what everyone thinks and knows, so everyone is fully informed. On another hand in the story “The girl who can” it is told in first person point of view. Since the story “The Girl Who Can” is only told by a seven year old girl, there is more room for misinterpretation than there would be if it was from the mother's or grandmother's point of view. She does not give a very good description of how the other characters characters feel about somethings. Adjoa does not always know how other characters in the story are feeling: “I find something quite confusing in all this.” She is meaning that she does not know why her grandmother thought what she said was so funny. so in ture we are left not knowing