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In the story “So I ain’t no Good Girl “written by Sharon Flakes. I felt like the scene was very realistic, the characters made the scene very realistic by the way they were acting. The author described the scene pretty good when she said: “if I scream at him the whole street could hear me”. I can also relate to the scene in my everyday life. A boy and his girlfriend where at a bus stop with some other girls, And Raheem starts to act a little flirter with the good girls who made his girlfriend kind of upset about the situation, so she tries to talk about it, but he got mad at her and ended up making out with the good girl. I say that the scene is realistic, because it is very similar to my everyday
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Black Like Me By John Howard Griffin
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So B It By Sarah Weeks
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A Good Man Is Hard To Find By Flannery O Connor
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Going To Work By Nancy Mercado
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Where Are You Going Where Have You Been Character Analysis
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Summary Of Ssong By Cynthia Zarin
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Girls Just Wanna Have Fangs By Sady Doyle
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A Good Man Is Hard To Find By Flannery O Connor
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Liz Welch's I Will Always Write Back
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Black Like Me By Sandra Lee Waldroop
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