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A Comparison Of Barbie And Sarah Wong
Wong compared the Princess Barbie she longed for with blond hair, a beautiful shiny gown, and a shimmery white tiara (Wong 246) with a unfamiliar, black-haired "friend" of Barbie as a gift for Christmas (Wong 246). Wong originally found her dull compared to Barbie (Wong 247). As the essay continues, Wong realizes that this black-haired doll she disliked actually looked like her, while the more "prettier", blond Barbie looked like Wong's best friend, Sarah. This is the point of comparing. (Wong 248). In the end, I think the message this essay was trying to give was that what you can be is more important than already looking pretty.

Wong probably organized this essay the way she did because she wanted us, the readers, to follow her journey.
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