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“Barbie-Q”
The Theme of this short story written by Sandra Cisneros is poverty. Cisneros begins the story with Incidental Symbolism, a description of the Barbie dolls “Yours is the one with mean eyes and a ponytail” and “Mine is the one with bubble hair” and the clothing for the dolls—which evidently they made themselves—“This and a dress invented from an old sock when we cut holes here and here and here,” from a protagonist’s point of view. We can see Cisneros’s intention was to provide the reader with the type of situation the characters are dealing with–being so poor that they can’t have nice looking Barbie dolls, nice clothing to go with them, and a variety to play with. ... For example, “Your Barbie is roommates with my Barbie, and my Barbie’s boyfriend comes over and your Barbie steals him, okay?
Approximate Word count = 720
Approximate Pages = 2.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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