![]() ![]() ![]() Specifically, Dana is determined to know her half sister and the life she lives. ![]() Mainly, they decide to take their relationships into their own hands. They also start to explore their sexuality with Jamal and Marcus, another reflection of how James and their mother’s have influenced those kinds of intimate relationships.ĭana and Chaurisse present many aspects of girl power. This not only impacts their changing relationships with their parents, but it effects their relationship with their peers and then each other. Dana and Chaurisse are both teenage girls who are finally coming to face the reality of their familial situation. The main rites of passage that is explored by the two main protagonists are their meeting and their high school adolescence. They are icons in the way they represent the dichotomy in what may be a lot of families and how as women they are left to handle those situations. They learn from their mothers’ relationship to James and relationship to society and how it pertains to the treatment of women within the patriarchy. They are girl icons because of how they handle their situation after watching the effect James has on their mothers, Gwendolyn and Laverne and their family dynamic. They are the narrators of this book and the vehicles that explore how women are treated in a patriarchal society. The girl icons this book presents are half sisters Dana and Chaurisse. ![]()
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