Analysis Of Confetti Girl

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Not every teenage girl or teenager gets along with their parents. Everyone sees things in different way. the difference in the point of view provokes the narrator's response, because they both see in a different view that they think their parents is selfish and neglecting or don't care about them but really their parents are helping them.

In the story "Confetti Girl" the narrators attitude is resentful of her father's efforts to impose his interests on her. This shows that the girl doesn't care about father's interests and now she thinks her father only cares about is books and vocabulary words. According to "Confetti Girl" paragraph 26 it states, "Nothing's more important than his books and vocabulary word. He might say I matter,

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