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Stephanie Perry Moore's Secrets In The Shadows
Jamarious Burley Burley01 Mrs. Kakolesha Secrets in the Shadows
AP Literature 3nd period
May 5, 2008

The title of the story I’m writing about is “Secrets in the Shadow,” by Stephanie Perry Moore. The story is a comedy and tragedy because the outcome is not well ended. The story is mainly about a boy named Roylin who has a crush on a girl named Korrie. He wants to impress her with a gift but he has no money to buy it for her. The story starts off with Roylin meeting Korrie for the first time when she showed up to his class, neither did he know that she liked him as much as he liked her. They started talking for a while and they soon started dating. It soon came that Roylin wanted to impress her by buying her a present to show how much he cares for her, but he didn’t have enough
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Roylin kept his mouth shut and said nothing.
Cooper made it seem like he was dragging a body down to the basement so he could bury it but really it was some rocks and some other thing to make it seem like it was a body.
Cooper played the game for a while making Roylin work for no reason because really he Burley03 was transferred to a nursery home. Roylin felt real bad and finally decided to give in, he really wanted to go to the cops but his mouth wouldn’t let the words come out his mouth. Toward the end of the story Roylin finds out that Mr. Miller was alive and he was really upset with Cooper but they kept their friendship. The author quickly lets us know that Roylin has a crush on the new girl Korrie and that she likes him also, and that he wants to buy her an expensive

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