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...nts out their pauper way of life by repeating the small amount of toys the young girls have. She mentions all the girls could afford was “one extra outfit apiece”. The clothes the girls do have to adorn the Barbies with are worn out and used up, “the black glitter wears off where her titties stick out”. A one paragraph later recalls again “our one outfit apiece”. Also, Cisneros touches on the “sock dress” the girls made for their dolls three times in two paragraphs vocalizing the low income of the family over and over stealing more and more feeling from the reader. Sandra cites the ignorant bliss of the young girls making them even more reader-friendly. I really felt bad for these girls, forgetting for a moment they are fictional, as they were so happy with the toys they had regardless of their condition. Cisneros articulates the grunginess of the Barbie’s by using “water-soaked”, “sooty”, and “damaged” to describe their condition. Moreover, she her detailed description of these imperfect dolls is meant to be taken as symbolic of the state of the young girls, scarred and worn. Cisneros depiction of the two girls reminds me of simpler day. Those days when everything was much more simple and happiness came with almost no effort. Cisneros reminds the reader of infantile glee by repeating words, just like a kid would do. She writes, “please, please, please,” and “and there! And there!, And there!…” making almost an alliteration of words that realistically depicts the speech of a child who can think of nothing else but what they want from moment to moment. Furthermore, Cisneros directly refers to the games that every person has played as a child. “Skipping”, “humming”, “loopity-loops”, and “pirouetting” are silly things that everyone has done as a child, including myself. These reminders set me in a time machine back to my favorite days when t...