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JuJu is Charlese’s 25-year-old sister. JuJu and Charlese’s parents died two years prior to the events of the novel, and JuJu has been taking care of Charlese since then. JuJu sells designer clothes at a steep discount. She constantly has parties in her house, and she pays Charlese to stay up during them to clean and serve drinks. JuJu is often violent, threatening to beat Charlese if she doesn’t complete seventh grade. When Miss Saunders starts to give Charlese poor grades, JuJu also storms into the principal’s office and threatens Miss Saunders. JuJu’s bad behavior becomes a model for Charlese, who also acts out and chooses to vandalize Miss Saunders’s room as revenge for her bad grades. By the end of the novel, JuJu has proven so incapable of taking care of her sister that she sends Charlese to their grandparents’ home in Alabama.
JuJu Quotes in The Skin I’m In
The The Skin I’m In quotes below are all either spoken by JuJu or refer to JuJu. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 25
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“This ain’t right,” I whisper.
Char grabs hold of my hand, and says, “Do it, or I ain’t never gonna bring you no clothes.”
I shake my head. “No.”
“You protecting Miss Saunders?” Char wants to know. “You protecting that hussy? Why? She don’t like you, neither. All the time making a fool out of you in class. You stupid girl. Do like I say or I’ll do something to mess you up.”
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JuJu Quotes in The Skin I’m In
The The Skin I’m In quotes below are all either spoken by JuJu or refer to JuJu. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 25
Quotes
“This ain’t right,” I whisper.
Char grabs hold of my hand, and says, “Do it, or I ain’t never gonna bring you no clothes.”
I shake my head. “No.”
“You protecting Miss Saunders?” Char wants to know. “You protecting that hussy? Why? She don’t like you, neither. All the time making a fool out of you in class. You stupid girl. Do like I say or I’ll do something to mess you up.”
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