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The Strongest Arnetta

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Although Arnetta appears as a strongest character in the story; she is the weakest character, because she does things to hurt people. On page 280, Arnetta talks about how the other troop smells like wet chihuahuas. Which shows to the audience that she is a bully. On page 284 and 285, Arnetta tells the group that one of the girls from the other troop called Daphne the n word. Arnetta tries to do anything to get the other girls against troop 909. All through the story, Arnetta makes different points to the reader that she isn’t a nice person. This proves that she does things to people to make herself feel like she’s in charge. Daphne appears as the weakest person, but she really turns out to be the strongest. On page 285, While

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