Recitatif

This story has some very deep characterization. The two main characters Twlya and Roberta have very rounded personalities. They both come from different abusive parents. Twlya's mother is an immature parent who only cares about herself and isn't very thoughtful about her child. This makes Twlya very annoyed when she visits showing a maturity in this young girl. Twlya mother is also a racist so she is a confused girl until she meets her roommate. Roberta comes from a bible lover mother who is not very nice. She also isn't very thoughtful about what her child likes to eat and we see this when she brings chicken. This makes Roberta a very nice girl who is very picky about the food she eats. Later on they share old times and experianced hardships together. They also move in on with their lives and get married/have kids. The older girls at the shelter were simple characters. They were the older girls who were bullys. The other kids didn't play much of a role in the story but they also were flat characters in that they only didn't like the girls because they still had parents.