Helga Crane

This novel was quite interesting especially the beginning, however her over usage of "big" words I felt were a little unnecessary.  But i digress, anywho, Helga was a hard character to follow and she at times, excuse my French (( pissed me off))!  For instance when she began to feel frustrated and annoyed with Anne and her other black friends, for no apparent reason!  I can see how the  constant conversations on race relations would annoy her, but not to that point; the point in which she decided that she despised them and wanted to get away from them.  I am almost (peep the almost) ashamed to admit that  I had acquired the (thats what you get) attitude when she went to go live with her Aunt Katrina.  In my opinion she was nothing more than a spectacle, because of her "strange" skin tone and unfamiliar features.  She seems to be a unpredictable and sometimes irrational person, like when she just decided to leave the school all of a sudden and ended up with only five dollars in her pocket because Uncle Peter's wife wanted nothing to do with her, and demanded that she not come back around. However, it is clear that Helga is in constant conflict with herself, being neither all white nor all black she doesn't really identify with either side. Her internal struggle is quite evident throughout the entire story.