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Janice Mirikitani Suicide Note Summary

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In “Suicide Note”, the author Janice Mirikitani is speaking as the college student. The voice is of the young girl who believes that nothing she does is not good enough “not good enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough” (367).Using the girl’s voice is significant because the reader is able to see through her eyes on that she is not good enough and that life would have been easier if she was born a boy. the college student is writing to her parents about how sorry she is that she was not a boy and she would have been loved more if that was the case “…light in my mother’s eyes or the golden pride reflected in my father’s dream.” (367). The girl keeps apologizing to her parents about how no matter how hard she works that she is still a girl

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