Barbie is more than just a doll. She is powerful, beautiful and wonderful woman. Every girl should want to be like her or so the author has us believe. Barbie is perfect woman ,so the young narrator (maybe she is a Mexican- American and poor) want to be
...Gal', the other, 'Sweet Dreams'. How much? Please. Please please, until they say okay. Everybody today selling toys, all of them damaged with water and smelling of smoke. Because a big toy warehouse on Halted Street burned down yesterday. ° now there is a big fire sale at Maxwell Street today only. So what if we didn't get our new Barvie and had to buy them on Maxwell Street all water-soaked and sooty."¡¹ 2.What the story is about. Barbie is more than just a doll. She is powerful, beautiful and wonderful woman. Every girl should want to be like her or so the author has us believe. Barbie is perfect woman ,so the young narrator (maybe she is a Mexican- American and poor) want to be like a Barbie. But she would not be a blonde hair and white skin Barbie. As if she washes the slightly melted, ash-smelling Barbie, but the smell never leaves. And the narrator attempts cover the melted Barbie. This is a direct symbol representing the fact that even though the narrator want to be like Barbie. She will always be a Latin-American. Also this stotry tells that how the poor is lived in U.S. The poor children also want to buy new Barbie and outfit as the mormal children do. The children who want to buy them have to depend on their parents' economic strength. If the children have poor parents they couldn't buy many things. So parents' poverty is children's poverty. Finally the Barbie which is decorated many outfit is symbol of rich people and the poor Barbie is direct the poor class. 3. How effective is its style....