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"Barbie Doll" by Marge Piercy is a poem about a girl and her struggles growing up in a world where people only judge her for the way she looks. Herself and others believe the only way to be happy is to be perfect on the outside because this is what they are presented with from birth. Throughout her poem, Marge Piercy, constantly uses barbie dolls to symbolize what  the world thinks the perfect women should aspire to be.

In the beginning the girl child is presented with what the world around her believes the perfect and happy women should be.
a. "The girl child was born as usual, and presented dolls that did pee-pee"
b. "and miniature GE stoves and irons and wee lipsticks the color of cherry candy."

As the child hits puberty it becomes more real to what people only care about, which is looks.
a. "Then in the magic of puberty, a classmate said: you have a great big nose and fate legs. "
b. " She was healthy tested intelligent[...] Everyone saw a fate nose on thick legs."

By the end of the poem, this girl is still only judged by the way she looks.
a. "In the casket displayed on satin she lay, With the undertaker's cosmetic painted on, a turned up  putty nose, dressed in a pink and white nightie"
b. Doesn't she look pretty? everyone said. Consummation at last. To every women a happy ending."          

Intro Paragraph

“From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.”- H.P. Lovecraft. Barbie Doll by Marge Piercy is a poem about the struggles of a young girl growing up in a world where people only judge her for the way she looks. She has a normal upbringing as a child but once she hits puberty her life takes a sudden turn when a classmate bluntly states that she has “a great big nose and fat legs.” Marge Piercy creates irony all throughout the poem by writing blunt statements that catch the reader of guard, to make her point that people only judge others solely on their looks, and lastly to prove the humanity makes women believe they have to be a certain way to be happy. 

E.A. Robinson's "Miniver Cheevy"

In "Miniver Cheevy" by E.A. Robinson's we encounter a character that believes that he is born in the wrong time period. He is not very content with the present and mourns for the past. Miniver is constantly romanticizing about the past wishing he lived in it. Even from his start he still felt he would rather have not been born then living in what he felt was the wrong time period. "He wept that he was ever born" (Robinson 3).  This romantic sensibility leads him to always mourning about the past and ends up drinking. Even though he lives in the present and does not like it, he still makes no effort to live in his fantasy world. But instead sits around and grieves about the past. E.A Robinson is presenting us with a character like this to show us what happen when you don't try to make you fantasy's come true. Miniver never tried to make his present more like the past and instead just settled for less. 
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Barbie Doll

"Barbie Doll" by Marge Piercy  is a poem about a common issue in society today.This issue is that girls  have low self esteem because of the culture around them. Margie Percy makes her point in her poem by writing ironic statements that throw the reader off.  The first ironic statement that she writes is, "Then in the magic of puberty, a classmate said: You have a great big nose and fat legs," (Piercy line 6) This is ironic because "magic" is something that is positive. But then the good nature of the word is taken away when " you have a great big nose and fat legs" is said. Another use of irony is " Doesn't she look pretty? everyone said."(line 23) People are looking at her in her casket after she had cut off her nose and legs. Its ironic because these are the same people who saw a fat nose and thick legs. I believe Piercy uses irony to get her point across to viewers in a more blunt fashion. When she does this it throws the reader off and makes the them really think about what she is trying to portray.


Old barbie versus new barbie.

Handicaps on the citizen in " Harrison Bergeron"

Harrison Bergeron

Hello! My name is Annie and welcome to my blog AnnasBannas! My favorite text from the summer reading was "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut. The whole concept of the story shocks me every time I think about it. The most challenging part is to think that the government would dumb people down, or make people less beautiful, or even put a handicap on them just so every was "equal. " It was inspirational how Harrison stood up to authority because it gave the people hope but was taken away when he was cruelly shot.  It was horrifying to think that this is what the author thought post America  would be like.Also it is crazy that every one was so brainwashed that Harrison's own parents cant even remember their own son getting shot on public television. My favorite quote from the text is, " Even as I stand here-" he bellowed, crippled, hobbled, sicken - I am a greater ruler than any man who ever lived! Now watch me become what I can become!" I found this quote so inspirational because Harrison was not letting anyone hold him back from being the best person he could be.