Bobos By Havrilesky Analysis

In the story, “Bobos” written by Havrilesky, a columnist for the “New York Magazine”, talks about her experience in elementary school when a kid calls her shoes “bobos”, which means a generic cheap shoe and how it makes her see her life a little differently. Havrilesky first realized that she was a little different from everyone else while waiting for her mom to pick her up to go home one day. A boy her age made fun of her for wearing shoes he referred to as “bobos”. She did not understand what was wrong with her shoes she thought they “were perfectly good shoes” (Havrilesky 34) She got them at Pic ‘n’ Pay which had “tall rows of kids shoes and its bins of sneakers that you could reach into and grab the size and color you wanted” (Havrilesky