’Anita and Me’ by Meera Syal
ignorance can be and she struggles to understand the relationships between people and their ideas. For
instance, Anita starts to go out with Sam after her mother left the family. The boy is the head of the
motocycle gang and despises coloured people. There had been even rumours about him and the boys
that they beat an Indian guy to death. Not only did she have to struggle with the problems with racism,
but also with the idea of having a baby brother. This all was too much for her. Fortunatelly, Meena's
grandmother came to pay a little visit to them from India. She and Meena develop At the end of the
novel Anita's little sister Tracey runs to Meena's place to get help. Namely, she believed that Sam is
killing her older sister. They found them in the garden of Big House, where the witch suppose to live.
When Tracey tries to attack Sam to defend Anita, the boy throws the girl into the pound. She would
have been nearly drowned, if she hadn't been saved by a mysterious man