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She is very stubborn and she holds grudges.

(Chapter 1)

-Max

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Rasberry's mother was so happy the morning of valentines day but the Rasberry wouldn't talk to her mom. Because she saw her mom started dating and her mom wasn't being straight up with her daughter about it.  The authors technique  that they use was to lead the reader to the theme of the story by dialogue. 

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Rasberry's mother was so happy the morning of valentines day but the Rasberry wouldn't talk to her mom. Because she saw her mom started dating and her mom wasn't being straight up with her daughter about it.  The authors technique  that they use was to lead the reader to the theme of the story by dialogue. 

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LN

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Self concious about her looks?
Addicted to money
Holds on to things
Holds grudges
Doesn't have much money, Busted up car.
Thinking about what a docter would want with someone who lives in the projects.
Dad joned a gang started hanging out with bad people things went down.
on Dope beat up mom.

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Divorced dad, Used to be relativly rich but dad left and took everything, they still have good money but her dad cut her off from her private school.

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She likes to point out people's insecurities. Ex. She pointed out Sato's fat fingers as well as how Zora is obsessed with how she looks.

She uses slang to describe almost everything.

She likes to hint/mention aspects of the book that will come in later. Ex. On the first page she talked about how dope is bad and a couple pages later she talked about how her dad's life was ruined by dope.

I thought that the amount of insults about people's past was kind of shocking considering how mean it is. It was also kind of strange that all of them care so much about how they look. Like the care WAAAAAAYYYY to much.

-Max

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She uses slang as if she lived there and knows how life is like and maybe she experienced living there and being broke for cash or maybe there was someone at her school that did this and shes writing it through there POV. She also will hint little moments of a story Ex Mai being sad she's mixed and protective about it, then we find out it comes from being bullied and made fun of.

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Looking for love, as shown in how she was "flirting with the doctor".

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Dr.Mitchell invites mom and Rasberry for dinner, Dr.Mitchell looks at her in a loving way rasberry dont say nothing. Mom also talks more formally

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Relativly wealthy for where they live, Thinks her mom and dad could get back together angry about Rasberrys mom and her dad flirting.

-Benny

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The author almost always flashes forwards in the beginning of chapters. Normally it has a short section that doesn't really lead to anything but shows a lot about Raspberry. It normally talks about how money affects Raspberry life so much. For example, on chapter 17 she talks about how rich Zora is and it kind of seems like she is jealous.
-Max

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Rasberry is very caring but at the same time self caring.

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Hard time in school and all around bullied in and out of school for having mixed parents, Self concious about skin color, Depressed in a way, example of her getting bullied because of her skin was where a couple boys from school came to her food truck and said they were looking for a mixed lap dog implying Mai and then cracked up pointing and making fun of her.

Benny

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Insecure, Chubby, Mad in love with Ming (Mai's brother), Stole 200$ from her grandfather to buy Ming a new jacket.

-Benny

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You Should Except and Embrace Who You Are

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You Should Except and Embrace Who You Are

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All of the characters are insecure about something:

Mai is insecure about being Korean.
Raspberry is insecure about being poor.
Zora is insecure about her looks.
Sato is insecure about being "chubby"

All of the characters hate this about themselves because they think that it is weird, but throughout the story the author shows how this makes them unique and interesting. The author does this by showing other people who are in similar situations such as Odd Job who prove that the insecurity makes them special.

-Max

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All charachters have a different backstory and or weakness,
They all have there oddities for such things as pass trauma and more. Personally I think the author adds this because she want's people to be able to relate to the charachter and to show how that even with problems your able to fight back and push through so maybe the theme that is no matter your insecuritys you can get through them and break free of your insecuritys and problems

-Benny

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I think that Raspberry's obsession for money comes from her troubles/trauma. Every time she touches money she gets comforted. This might be because she subconsciously understands that her troubles come from lack of money.

-Max

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Ja'nae is insecure because her grandfather lied on Rasberry saying that she stole $200. The author wanted to show that Ja'nae wasn't getting trusted. Realistic fiction was the theme during this setting.

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Ja'nae is insecure because her grandfather lied on Rasberry saying that she stole $200. The author wanted to show that Ja'nae wasn't getting trusted. Realistic fiction was the theme during this setting.

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In the very first pages she talked a lot about how everyone was insecure. At first we thought that it was hinting at how messed up this town was. But, we were completely wrong. It turned out that she was trying to show that all of these insecurities make you special by initially conveying that they were bad like most people think at first. Then she showed towards the end of the story that this makes them unique.
-Max

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I think the author will lead the reader by first of all showing all of their problems like raspberry being scared of being poor and Mai Being insecure about her parents and being Korean. Her highlighting these problems makes the readers think how are the characters going to overcome this hurdle. then she gives you more information telling you more about the problem and maybe why that is a problem. Furthermore she then gets us close to the answer giving us all the information we need and for us to decipher it in are own way while she sets down the setting stones slowly.

-Benny

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The author flash forwards/back lots of time throughout the book usually to give us insight on things. A example of this is when she gave us insight on how they used to live on the streets and how that led to raspberrys being money hungry never wanting to go through that again problem.

-Benny