The Fabulous Button Sisters

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1) The Fabulous Button Sisters (2006) by Sarah Salway, is a short story about Karen, a British teenager and our narrator, and her friend Michelle. They are going to a costume party and Michelle calls and decides that they are going as chocolate buttons – Michelle herself as a white one and Karen as a brown, and ordinary, one. After they finished their call, Karen is thinking about her rather new friendship with Michelle and how the lather had come to “own” her in a way she can’t quite explain. Michelle always talks about her mum who, according to her, is trying to become an actor in Hollywood. They meet the next day to go to the party but Michelle isn’t in her costume. She explains that her mum has finally sent for her and she is going to live in Hollywood with her. Karen is trying to ignore the fact that the letter is sent from Birmingham whilst trying to get her normal/before-Michelle-life back. 2) Karen is a pushover who can’t form her own opinions or views. She always does what Michelle tells her to do and doesn’t think much about why she is doing it. She acts like Michelle is magical and can make her otherwise boring life more exciting. In that process she almost forgets her best friend, not because she doesn’t like her anymore but because Michelle simply is that much more interesting. She also become more invisible because of Michelle’s visibility. After Michelle moves away, Karen’s old life is slowly resurfacing and everything is back to normal after a while. 3) Michelle loves to be the center of attention at all times. She deliberately ingratiates herself onto Karen and all aspects of her life and never gives her the opportunity to choose between herself and her, somewhat, former best friend Connie. I really think she loves to manipulate other people but I also think it’s because her own life is so bleak and quite sad. Her father left his family
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