’Anita and Me’ by Meera Syal
However, Anita and her friends want to do things
more suited to older girls chase boys and go out and Meena finds herself being left behind. Meena
has to find her own place in a world full of racism and ignorance, and learn to reconcile who she is
with what she aspires to be. Meena had even a little crush on Sam, before he found out about his
despisal against coloured people.
Anita Rutter is the sassy blonde school rebel, two years older than Meena and bossette of The
Wenches, a three-girl gang of antisocial wastrels. She loves to tease the boys and thieve from the local
sweet shop. nita is the polar opposite of Meena - she comes from a broken family as opposed to
Meena's stable, loving family; Anita is not studious nor highly literate; and, Anita sees sex as a means
to an end and as a way to cope with her own bleak life. She starts to hand out with Sam more often,
after her mother left the family for a butcher.
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