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Character Analysis: Shark Girl
Marlet Garcia
Bingham,Kelly. Shark Girl. Cambridge: Candlewick Press, 2007. Jane Arrowood is a fifteen year old girl whose arm was amputated when she was bitten by a shark. Jane is really stubborn and she doesn't let herself try new things. She was still finding out how to be courageous and brave after what she had been trough. Justin is a kid who is around eight or nine or ten years old who lost his leg below the knee. He was a brave kid because he never was arguing about his disability. He was just a kid with half a leg less but that didn’t stop him from going on with his life. Shark Girl has a plethora of settings starting with Santa Clarita which is the place where Jane lives with her Mom and Michael. Then there is Point Dume State
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