Barbie Q Symbolism Essay

There is symbolism in everything you just have to look at the bigger picture to realize what it is. In the short story Barbie-Q written Sandra Cisneros there you wouldn’t automatically think the sock dress had a bigger meaning to it, but actually it represents that no matter how little the young girl had she was grateful for what she was fortunate enough to have. Now if you took this symbol and this story and placed it into the twenty-first century you would get a whole other interpretation.
Kids these days always want more no matter how much you give them. If you gave a little girl a barbie with no dress chances are you would never hear her say “ this dress is a dress invented from an old sock when we cut holes here and here and here”. Instead you would hear her whine because her barbie doll needs clothes and then throw a fit when you tell her you're not buying the barbie clothes.
When I was younger all the things that kids have now were not even a thought on my mind. Yes, I had my toys and my little nintendo but what I got most upset about was when my mom would not let me go play outside when my friends were. But now technology is so advanced and absorbs so much of our attention we do not notice our surroundings or how lucky we actually are to have the things we have. A person on average
Simply because of the fact that people today are not as grateful as that little girl was that day just to have a barbie, there always has to be more. It is not hard to assume that this would have turned a good story into a not so great story. The switch of time period would have taken something so simple with a larger symbol and turned it into something so straightforward, it would have a meaning, but it just wouldn't be a deep meaning. As a reader I think that just kills the purpose of the story and probably would’ve ended up not liking it very