—Anonymous
First of all, what made me uncomfortable is that I can not get what the author wants to tell us. Why you did not understand the text until after thinking is that the whole story between the protagonist and barbie is easy. But after I see the professor states some question, I finally realize it is a story about friendship and sexual role in society, especially how people interact in the form of friendship. The protagonist and barbie’s interaction, almost every plot and action let me see the shadow of the interaction between friends.
First of all, when the protagonist asks what kind of barbie she is. This is particularly like the first interaction between friends. He asks the barbie “which kind of barbie”; “Day to Night?”; “Magic?”;“Gift-giving ?” Tropical? ” my first barbie?It’s like, we started by asking our friends, where are you from, where did you go to school, what college are you at? The second point, in the plot of the protagonist to help barbie as a leaf plot, is also particularly like the interaction between friends. Most of the time, friendship is created by the interaction between friends, and we will consciously hope that friends will thank us after receiving our help. When the protagonist helps barbie fend off the leaves, barbie does not thank him as much as the protagonist previously thought. This is particularly disappointing for the protagonist. The third thing that makes me feel similar is that the protagonist has a trust-building process in his interaction with barbie. There are many other points in this article that will bring me to the principles of friendship. For example, our request for friendship, which makes me feel a little bit difficult to accept because as we get older, we gradually feel that friendship makes us complicated.
Secondly, A REAL DOLL satisfied by my need to be readable. The most contribution to this was that the author used plenty of conversation and verb phrases to Push the plot forward. The talk between people was colloquial so that I can easily get attention by imaging the scene in my head. For example, the author wrote “ I lay back on the bed. Barbie rolled over, off the pillow, and rested on my chest. Her body stretched from my nipple to the belly button. “Barbie,” I said. “Umm Humm”…”. So there are verbs such as lay back, roll over, rest, and colloquial conversation, which depicted the scene vividly.
The third point is that revealing and a little bit of Humorous irony, by a Chinese phrase called See Big From Small. The A.M.HOMES, in A REAL DOLL, was good at using metaphor. For instance, When the protagonist and barbie talk, they always look at each other and talk. After that, they say nothing. And then the process goes back and forth. It’s like the way we interact with our friends. Some of us may interact a lot for a while, but after a while, we may interact less. But the process repeats itself, at different stages of life. Besides, I think the coke in the article is particularly metaphorical. In real life, we also have food, like drinks, to deepen our friendship, to deepen our friendship.