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The Red Dress Story
The Red Dress is typically a narrative about a certain girl’s first dance in high school. However, the home and the school environment play a big role in determining the attitude that she is supposed to display during that first experience. According to the story, the girl had a particularly bad experience at her home and her mother constantly disheartened her and even went further to reprimand her at the presence of her best friend known as Lonnie. In addition, the author brings into light the negative and worst experience that this particular character went through in her school environment.
According to the story, the girl was never confident and was always unsure of herself whenever she was required to approach the blackboard. He self esteem was so low that she was constantly afraid of having her periods in front of her classmates. However at the dance floor she got to explore her own attitude when she met Mary Fortune who accorded her the attention that she so lacked in her life. She had her first smoke and a company that she never had before. She was the red girl with the red dress who got to enjoy at the high school dance just this once in her entire life. This particular dance made her to learn about herself, her mother, and other people and about what happiness means.
The story of the girl with the dress brings into light the theme of self esteem. The main character of this story is so unsure of own self, that she seems embarrassed by her own mother. There is nothing that seems good enough in her life and she felt that she was probably destined to be alone. In addition, the author has introduced the theme of innocence whereby the girl with the red dress accepts the cigarette that she was offered by fortune. This is despite the fact that she had not smoked in her entire life.