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My Favorite Chaperone By Jean Daviess Okimoto Analysis
In the short story “My Favorite Chaperone” by Jean Davies Okimoto talks about a thirteen-year-old girl named Maya. She recently moved to the United States with her family from Kazakhstan. In the story, Maya wants to go to the Spring Fling dance, held at her school, but she is extremely doubtful her parents will not let her go. Furthermore, Maya’s little brother, Nurzhan, gets into a fight with Ossie Nishimoto, a boy that keeps teasing Nurzhan. Maya is called to the office to translate the principal’s words into Russian for her father, and Maya fears what her father will do to Nurzhan so she alters the principal’s words. As the story develops, Maya is found toying with Daniel Klein, which leaves Maya’s father and mother furious. Days after the
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