“ Seen Through Rose-Tinted Glasses”: The Barbie Doll in American Society Wether we realize it or not the toys our kids play with everyday have an immense impact on their behavior and development. Motz essay describes the perfect example of what these toys do to our society. In her essay, Marilyn Ferris Motz describes how Barbie portrays an image of a woman that lives based on her appearance, her popularity and her status. When playing with this dolls, girls take on the role of a teenager or an adult woman, letting them imitate adult female behaviors they see on other people and on the media. Girls take on the role of the doll enabling them to participate in dating and other social activities.
It all begins with a young girl being born into the world of judgment. Children believe everything they are told. If they are told they are beautiful, they will believe it until someone tells them otherwise. Young girls are impressionable by their mother’s and female counter part’s actions, such as wearing fancy clothes and putting on make-up. In the poem, the speaker states the girlchild has “wee lipsticks the color of cherry candy” (4), showing that she already wants to alter her appearance.
The insertion of Gemma’s version of Briar Rose throughout “home” emphasise that this story was of great significance to her life. The dialogue in which Gemma tells the story is constantly interrupted as the girls attempt to help her tell the tale. “Which is all times”. This reveals their familiarity with the story, and their love if it. It has bonded them, as Becca proves when she kisses Gemma as the Prince kissed the princess in the tale.
Jones expresses these dilemmas within his story through an immense selection of literary devices and techniques. While preparing her daughter for her first day of school, the mother in the story puts a lot of time and effort into making sure her little girl's outer appearance is superb. By directly including the phrase, "like everything else I have on, my pale green slip and underwear are brand new," Jones throws the reader a bone, so to speak. This is a simple statement that Jones injects into his story to give the reader an opportunity to expand upon and potentially question the significance of the brand new clothes. In addition, Jones uses descriptive vocabulary as he addresses
In the novel, In the Time of the Butterflies, Maria Teresa Mirabal, the youngest of the four sisters, matures from a little, naïve girl into a young woman, who takes part in a revolutionary movement. By the end of the passage, Patria stands in awe, wondering when her little sister had grown up so quickly. While everyone believes in her growth – and indeed she has grown as she is working – the reality remains that Maria Teresa’s work restrains her from fully becoming independent as she is literally in the home, doing traditional women’s work. At first, Maria Teresa does not understand why her sister, Minerva, would ever want to force anyone out of power, even if he is a dictator. The way she speaks displays her childishness.
The book I chose for my independent reading project is called “Burned” by Ellen Hopkins. The project I chose to do is a book box because the book I’ve read has a lot of items that correspond to the events and characters in my book. The items I have chosen from my book is a journal, a diaper, a ring, a cell phone, and a pregnancy test. The first item I chose was a journal. The reason I chose this item is because in the book, the main character Pattyn Von Stratten used a journal write down all her troubles because her librarian Ms. Rose told her it would be good for her.
Soon enough her father died and kids started picking on her about her complexion. Char the most popular girl in the grade, makes a deal with Maleeka that if she does her homework for her Char will always stick up for her and allow Maleeka to borrow clothes. Maleeka wants to be so liked by people in school she agrees and starts hanging out with Char. A new teacher than arrives at the school. Miss Saunders also gets made fun of because of the big blotch she has on her face which is her birth mark.
“The Lesson” is an essay that looks at wealth through the eyes of a poor black girl whose education includes a trip to one of the world’s premiere toy store. The text discusses serious social issues and the uneducated views of life the narrator and her friends live. The teacher who takes them on the trip is trying to show the students that they can have a different life than the one they are so used too. The lesson is suppose to teach the students in order to get ahead in life they have become educated. “We start down the block and she gets ahead which is O.K.
The sounds of rattles and other objects delighted little Kayla, and her parents bought her some percussive toys to play with too. Kayla learned how to mimic sounds early in her development and was speaking words and small sentences by the time she was two. She progressed well through the object permanence phase of development and also through Piaget’s preoperational thinking stage as well, during which Kayla talked about “me” a lot, developed a rich creative storyline related to her dolls, and creatively manipulated ideas to suit her unique vision of the world. Kayla also progressed smoothly through Erikson’s first three psychosocial stages of development, from infancy through early childhood to preschool. A deep sense of trust of her parents was engendered during infancy, as both her parents were there to feed and take care of her.
For the summer approaching junior year, we were now required to read a memoir called, "The Color of Water" by James McBride and also another book called, "Breath, Eye, Memory" by Edwidge Danticat. What I realized between these two stories was very interesting how family secrets may have a profound effect on the development of an individual's life and keeping secrets plays a big part in ones life. These two books actually taught me about conflicts between family members and how serious little things matter. "The Color of Water" also showed secret of identity which also stuck out to me. In class we all as a whole had to read, "The Lord of the Flies", "The Catcher in the Rye", and "Macbeth".