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Misunderstanding In A Real Live Blond Cherokeee
In the short story “A Real-Live Blond Cherokee and His Equally Annoyed Soul Mate” Cynthia Leitich Smith uses conflict between Jason and Nika to to show how a misunderstanding can lead to a very strong relationship.
Nika walks into Jason’s workplace “All the world’s a stage” and asks him for an interview for her history class. “My American history teacher, Mr. Cavazos, he says that we have to use primary sources because if you want to find out about people’s history… I’m getting a C minus in history, and I was wondering if I could interview you about-’ ‘No’... It took the girl a second to recover, and I remembered seeing her earlier that day. She’d walked into the shop, flipped through the wands , swords, and umbrellas section, taken one look at me and fled.”(Smith 34).This ties to a misunderstanding leading to a relationship because it talks about how Jason misunderstanding Nika’s intention leads to him being very rude to her and making feel very embarrassed.
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“Chad!’ she replied.(Smith 37)… At one-fifteen...At two o’clock I helped Liza straighten his wig and decided that any girl who’d want Chad wasn’t good enough for me… At three-nineteen, I watched Sonny and Cher leave hand in hand and worried that Chad was five of six years older than NIka… At four-eleven, I looked into crystal ball and it was clear that I should’ve been dating Indian girls anyway.”(Smith 38) This quote supports the thesis by talking about how Jason thinks about Nika and her relationship and how he gets really worried for her and how she might have put herself in a dangerous

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