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The Green Killer Alan Dunn Analysis

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All of the stories are very similar because each person is content with their culture, but sometimes feel out of place. For example, in “The Green Killer,” Alan shows that he is jealous of Blaze when he states, “the brilliant, dazzling Blaze Dunn, seventeen; and yours truly, Alan Dunn, sixteen, average,” which compares his average lifestyle to Blaze’s “perfection.” This story is similar to the conflicts in “Tiffany, age Eleven” when Tiffany includes she felt insecure when she once scored the highest in karate, but the first-place trophy was given to another white girl on the team. Both of these stories also show connection to, “The Cutting of my Long Hair.” In this story an Indian girl felt “like sinking to the floor” because she felt insecure
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