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Compare And Contrast Checkouts And The Girl Who Can
The characters in the short stories “Checkouts” and “The girl who can” have similarities. One of the similarities are both of these stories are about girls. Both of the girls in this story are socially awkward. Neither one of them talk much in the stories. They both have family problems the girl in “Checkouts” problem is her family moved her away from her friends and expect her to make new ones, The girl in “The girl who can” problem is that her legs are to skinny and her grandmother says she can’t make babies. These are just some of the similarities in these stories

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