Brownies Zz Packer Analysis

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Paper 2: “Brownies”
"Brownies," by ZZ Packer, is a story about a Brownie troop of African American fourth-grade girls from Atlanta, Georgia, who go to Camp Crescendo. At the camp, they encounter a troop of white girls, Troop 909, and believe that one of the white girls used a racially offensive comment when she spoke of them. The African American girls decide they need to get revenge on Troop 909 and resolve to beat them up in a bathroom. Before they started beating Troop 909, the African American girls realized that Troop 909 is a troop with mentally challenged, and handicapped girls. Later, the African American girls discovered that Troop 909 was falsely accused of making the racially offensive comment. The climax of the story is when Arnette, …show more content…

The narrator of the story is Laurel, also known as "Snot." The first person point of view is important to the story because it shows the African American kids side of racial discrimination and prejudice. Laurel, the narrator of the story, is the protagonist in “Brownies.” Laurel is a dynamic character in the story, because she came to an epiphany about prejudice and racism and reaches a level of maturity in which she understands what is right and wrong. The antagonist in “Brownies” is Arnette, the leader of the African American troop. Arnette is considered a static character because she fails to accept different races. It says in the story “when you live in the south suburbs of Atlanta, it is easy to forget about whites”(Packer 186). Arnette fails to accept different races because she is not use to interacting with people of other races.
The conflict in "Brownies" is when an African American troop member claims she heard one of the white girls make a racially offensive comment. The conflict leads to the climax of the story which is that the African American troop wants to get revenge on Troop 909. "We can't let them get away with calling us niggers. I say we teach them a lesson"(Packer 187). The external conflict is between the African American troop and Troop 909, the all white

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