™“She remembered how she’d marveled when she’d read it, amazed that anyone would do such a thing how-in the all-knowing arrogance of youth– she’d been certain that given the same circumstances, she would have cone something different” (p. At the end of the story, Dina is contemplating the Kamikaze pilots of World War 2. Being unable to find a suitable job, she ends up having to share a flat with multiple roommates, and they all find themselves in a state of destitution and starvation. In Geese, Dina moves to Japan to work.Her teeth locked, biting nothing, and her screams dead-ended into low grunts' (p. he slapped her, as though reviving the dead. She gargled on her own spit, felt blood trill down her nostrils. '.and so he dragger her along the shag of the carpet and sheepskin until her face felt the cold linoleum of the kitchen floor and she saw the endless, reeling flowers of the kitchen wallpaper.After her experiences with sexuality with Dezi and Marie in Atlanta (Dezi pressuring her to have sex and exerting physical dominance over her, and learning about Marie’s lifestyle), it becomes clear that she has lost a great deal of that innocence, specifically at a young age. It is clear that she is young and innocent at the start of the story. In Speaking in Tongues, Tia comes from a small town and ultra-religious upbringing.You see that all too often in the world, where you would imagine that people who have been oppressed would doubly understand others who have been.' I wanted to show that here's this one time in which you have people who view themselves as being the victims that actually become victimizers. I mean these girls don't even know why they have the anger that they have. In an interview with the BBC, ZZ Packer claims about the story, '.I wanted to show how, this is all part of this.The main character, Snot, comes to a conclusion at the end, saying, 'When you've been made to feel bad for so long, you jump at the chance to do it to others.'No,' I said, and suddenly knew there was something mean in the world that I could not stop' (p.

The black troop wants to get revenge on the white troop for calling them 'Niggers,' and so they come up with a plan, and the girls end up calling the other troop 'retarded.' This causes many problems for the troops and their leaders. In Brownies, there is a troop of black girl scouts, and a group of white girl scouts that we later find out are delayed learners.

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