Solar Storms: A Character Analysis of its Protagonist Angela Jesnen

Solar Storms is a novel of a coming of age. Its central character is the adolescent protagonist, a young Native American woman named Angela Jesnen with a troubled family history and a troubled past. Jesnen is an outsider in almost all facets of her life, standing on the borderlines of existence on almost every facet of her being. For example, Angela is an outsider physically, as her face is scarred. During a time of life, late adolescence, where a young woman wishes most to appear to be beautiful and fit in with her peer group, Angela feels self-conscious about her ability to attract the opposite sex. This alone would be bad enough, but to make things worse, Angela is haunted by the knowledge that it was her troubled mother Hannah who injured her, as well as her knowledge that Hannah...
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