In the story skin I’m in by Sharon flake there is a girl named Maleeka who gets bulled the story takes place in the city and at mc Clinton middle school . The main conflict of the story is that Maleeka gets picked on and she doesn’t feel like she has any value and she makes friends with the wrong people . She learns that she has to love that skin she is in and that she can’t let other people bring her down .
In the beginning, Maleeka gets bullied by john-john he made up a song and all the kids sing it he says ” Maleeka Maleeka you’re so black … we want to keep you , but we just can’t see you ” she sometime borrows clothes from char she tries to be friends with her so that people stop picking on her . The author uses imagery to show how Maleeka lets the wordes people say hurt her and about herself . ” but even those hundred dollar pant suits she brought in for me can’t make up for the hurt I feel when she slaps me with them mean words of her. ”
In the middle of the story Maleeka is jumped by two boys and is almost raped .she doesn’t tell anyone about what happened and keeps it all inside Maleeka says my heart is about to beat me up in said . The author included this how scared she was .” I dig my finger nails into that other boy’s stomach and hang or tight like a crab ” she was trying to fight the boy’s to escape she went thrower it all by herself and she never told her mom that this happened to her so she keep it in said .
in the end of the story Maleeka show that most change her and char detoured a class room and char set stuff on fire and then Maleeka the one that gets in trouble. The other blame it on Maleeka and she is going to be in serious trouble . Maleeka stand up to char and tell the truth about wat happen . She says I want to tell her that the truth will get my butt kicked good. That if I open my big mouth aren’t nothing she or mama can do to keep char from getting me back” the show how the fear that Maleeka has stand up to char.in the end that she has to take care of herself and love who she is that why she finely stand up to char .
After the eight grand Maleeka after 9 years in the middle school Maleeka is friends with everyone in the school and she love her life the end .