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... Well that is how Phyllisia Cathy felt throughout “The Friends.” Phyllisia is a fourteen-year-old girl from the Islands who is sent to Harlem, New York to be with her controlling father and loving mother. ...
Phyllisia can be describes as plain and tall without a shape. ...
Phyllisia has a best friend name Edith Jackson. Phyllisia could not really accept the fact that Edith was poor and could not dress as decent as she wanted her to. The day
Phyllisia left school with Edith (the students called their teacher a Jew that same day); she found out that Edith was a thief. ... Even though Phyllisia knew that Edith lived in poverty, she continues to have a streak of wickedness that kept popping out as though it was to hurt Edith. It never did, she just changed the subject to something more important like Phyllisia mother. When Edith’s father ends up missing, Phyllisia thought that was a good thing because she felt he wasn’t useful anyway because he hasn’t done anything for them. ...
Phyllisia and her mother never had a mother-daughter relationship. ... When Phyllisia mother died of breast cancer, she went crazy. ... Phyllisia seen a woman, a familiar woman, with a red coat looking at each one of them in the face as if she were searching for something. ... Phyllisia longed for her friendship very much, but thought that she would never have it. ... When Edith’s brother Randy died, Phyllisia really stopped liking Marian because she was talking, about how Edith use to dress (she did the same thing) and how Randy probably deserve to get shot because he ran.
Phyllisia and her father Calvin have a critical relationship in this novel. ...
Phyllisia and her sister Ruby relationship are very differ from the one with her father. ... Phyllisia use to have to comfort her because she is very tender. ...
In conclusion, Phyllisia is a good person at heart, but she can be difficult to handle at times.
Approximate Word count = 1819
Approximate Pages = 7.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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