Checkouts By Cynthia Rylant

Life’s mistakes will be realized. In the story “Checkouts” by Cynthia Rylant, a boy and girl meet in a grocery store but were to nervous to talk to each other. So in the end, they met with different dates and their love was ruined. As in the story “The Girl Who Can” from Ama Ata Aidoo, there is a little girl named Adjoa who has skinny legs which her grandmother thought were useless. In the end Adjoa won a big race with her skinny legs and that's when her grandmother thought that they could be useful. Each character is shaped by their cultural perspectives and the narration of their story.
The different point of views change what we know about the characters. Such as in “Checkouts” the story was written in 3rd person. An example is “She spotted