How To Write A Chapter Summary Of Star's Private School Life

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Thomas skillfully employs the writing techniques of a first person perspective and flashbacks to ultimatelty convey the divide between protagonist Starr’s private school life and home in a crime-ridden ghetto. While at a party in the slums, Starr meets her old friend Kahlil and begins to catch up with him. Starr quickly becomes upset as she realizes Kahlil has became a selfish and manipulative individual with multiple girlfriends. This causes Starr to reflect on her past relationship with Kahlil and current one with her boyfriend: “But the way Kahlil looks at me with those hazel eyes makes it hard to be upset (that he has many girlfriends). I feel like I’m ten again, standing in the basement of Christ Temple Church, having my first kiss with him at Vacation Bible School. …show more content…

Providing this background information intially aids the reader in understanding how Kahlil and Starr became friends. This also can lead the reader to make predicitons or assumptions about Starr and Kahlil’s future relationship as well as how Starr got her current boyfriend. However, the utimate purpose for Thomas’s use of a flash back is to lead Starr to consider her current situation in the ghetto. This leads Starr to criticize how she is dressed and remeber her boyfriend and life at her private school. By forgetting about this aspect, Starr clearly lives in two different and divided worlds: one where she is friends with a player and another where she is expected to dress nicely. Starr’s constant mental and behavoir switiching is clear aparent as she thinks about the apsects of one part of her life before changing thoughts to consider another. Thomas incoprporates a first person perspective when a shooter arrives at the party. Thomas describes Starr’s first hand experience as she tries to look for her half sister Kenya without being shot: “Pop! A shot rings out. I

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