Personal Response to Family of Little Feet Essay

The beginning of the story starts out sounding like a fairytale about a family with slender feet and then transforms into a story that is macrocosm told about a little girl and two of her friends that are given three pairs of high heeled shoes to play with, . magic high heels.The girls each travail on and swap between them the three pairs of shoes and then begin walking about the neighborhood with the shoes on and the speaker notes the different reactions that they scram from the different people they pass while corrosion the shoes. The speaker states Down to the corner where the men cant take their eyes off us. We mustiness be Christmas.They pass a shop keeper that asks them if their begin knows they have shoes like that, and he tells them they are too young to be wearing them. Then the girls pass the laundromat where six female cousins just ignore them as they walk by in the high heels, and one of the girls advertd Lucy states that the cousins are ever so jealous. Lastly t hey pass a tavern where one of the girls, Rachel yells out to the bum that is standing out front, Do you like these shoes? The bum answers yes to Rachel and he asks her name in which she replies Rachel.The bum tells Rachel how pretty she is and that her shoes are beautiful. He proceeds to tell Rachel Rachel, you are prettier than a yellow taxi cab. You know that? The other little girl Lucy, seemingly knowing better, doesnt like this encounter with the bum and tells her friend that we got to go. The bum then offers Rachel a dollar for a osculation which she seems to be considering until her friend Lucy grabs her by the hand and begins to run from the bum, all the while he is still yelling something that the girls arent close enough to hear some(prenominal) longer.This obviously scared, at the very least Lucy because the next paragraph begins We are tired of being beautiful. Lucy hid the shoes and then one day her mother was cleaning and threw them away but no one complains. By the way no one complains when the shoes are thrown away shows that the girls have had their freshman real encounter with the mature world awaiting them, and they are not yet ready to enter it at their young ages.