Cisneros

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A child's world usually revolves around having fun and playing with toys. Before a child enters

school, toys can be anything from a pot and a spoon to something bought at the toy store. After a

child enters school, toys become the defining idea of who "fit's in" and who is left as an outsider. The

better your toys, especially the ones you bring to show and tell, the better your chances of fitting in.

Barbies are often a popular toys for girls. In "Barbie-Q," Sandra Cisneros's theme involving a young,

poor girl demonstrates that poor children will accept slightly damaged popular toys in an attempt to be

Through characterization the young girl introduced becomes a heroine and demonstrates the

excitement from feeling, briefly, as if she fits in. Although the flea market on Maxwell Street is within a

poor neighborhood, the young girl becomes very excited with just the sight of the Mattel boxes. She

states, "On the outside you and me skipping and humming but inside we are doing loopity-loops and

pirouetting." The excitement from buying "Caree

due to receiving a new one.

A. My grandfather was a trash man and the family had very little money to spend on four

foot. She declares, "so long as you don't lift her dress, right? -- who's to know" (219).

be accepted by friends. As demonstrated by the story of my mother, the want children have for toys

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V. The want children have for toys occurs in every household across the nation.

for her. Eventually mother's friend offered to give mother her old doll, which she no longer needed

cut holes here and here and here, the cuff rolled over for the glamorous, fancy-free, off-the-shoulder

motivated action, action that offers the audience a reason for how the characters behave, Sandra

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Approximate Word count = 1231
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)