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Brief Summary Of Skunk Girl

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“Skunk Girl” revolves around a 16-year-old Pakistani Muslim Girl and her difficulties with bullies, boys, strict parents, and a miserable arranged marriage dilemma.

The story initiates with, Nina, a brave, passionate, and impressionable 16-year-old girl, and Karim, her cheerful, positive, and helpful twin brother getting to ready go to school for their first day of tenth grade. During that morning, Nina’s friends started to talk about the hottest boys that they were currently crushing on, Nina spoke tons about a new black boy, Caleb, that just moved to their high school this year. Coincidentally, she had a math class with him and she was certainly thrilled, during the entire class, she constantly stared at Caleb and daydreamed about him. …show more content…

Nina told Caleb about her complication at the end of their walk and Caleb took it quite easily, he thought that he can convince them with his charm, Nina thought there may be a chance too so they scheduled a conference in a couple days. When the special day came, let 's just say, Nina’s parent 's opinions and judgments were quite harsh. Immediately after Caleb walked through their front door, they told him to leave in a rude manner like he was some sort of monster, every time they tried to justify themselves they were cut off by some sort of shout. When Caleb left, Nina was devastated, for once in her life, there 's someone that truly loves her with the bottom of their heart that 's not a relative. Caleb was her first boyfriend and she’s wasn 't gonna let it be ruined by some idiotic rule that her parents made, she decided to pour her heart and tears into convincing her parents that they 're making the incorrect decision. When she went down to convince them, it had to be a serious conversation so she made her parents promise to hear

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