The Secret Monologue

Linda: They did this thing called ‘Slabtown Convention.’ I don’t even know if I can explain this to you. But one of the women would dress up like a preacher. Remember I said women didn’t preach back then. I don’t know where she would get this black coat with these tails on it and she’d wear a black bowtie with shoe polish on her to make herself a little mustache and maybe a little goatee or something. She would have on...she looked like you know she was dressed like a guy and she would preach a sermon.

Bre’s mother had been looking for a new church to go to for a while. And thanks to her new job at the Holyoke Soldier’s Home as well as her ability (unlike her daughter’s inability) to socialize, Bre’s mother made a new friend who introduced her to one of the Pentecostal Assembly of God churches. The church offered services on both Wednesdays and Sundays, so it was expected of both Bre and her brother to take up

"Shut it! Now shut it! Now look you. All of you. We danced.

In one story, the the Queen

I do not dance on my toes.”

"Speaking of house slippers, apparently some households don't require people to take off their outside shoes when they go inside the house. I was pretty surprised when I heard that. But I finally understood what those ads for mops - y'know, the ones with the white suburban mums frowning down at the mud on the wooden floors - were talking about. Of course there's gonna be mudstains all over your floor if your kids don't change their shoes."

“Without appearing to, Mrs. Turpin always noticed peoples feet. The well-dressed lady had on red and grey suede shoes to match her dress. Mrs. Turpin had on her good black-patent leather pumps. The ugly girl had on Girl Scout shoes and heavy socks. The old woman had on tennis shoes and white-trashy mother had on what appeared to be bedroom slippers, black straw with gold braid threaded through them exactly what you would have expected her to have on.” (O’Connor

When I arrived at the store, I came to an appalling realization that the money I had couldn’t even buy a tiny pair of green doll shoes at this gargantuan store. My little 7 year old world came crashing down. Before then, I had

She tore through pieces of glass and brick of the church, and then picked up a little shoe that she had spotted, and said, “well here is the shoe that my daughter wore, but baby where are you?”

The movie reveals how she had many conflicts to be with the queen alone. Also,

I remember the time I started dancing like it was yesterday. I was in 7th grade when I first joined a dance team. Dance became important to my life, due to the fact that when I was younger I would constantly get hurt a lot by being bullied, and also had my parents fight all the time until they reached a point they wanted to get a divorce. I got tired of it , and I started looking for horrible ways to blow away the pain I felt inside, finally I found the appropriate way to do so. Dancing was the perfect way to escape from all the pain that was holding me down. I look back so many times to the day I first did a solo;It felt like the wind was blowing towards my face every pirouette I did. It felt like if I was a bird flying free in the sky. I

In the movie, Tracy Turnblad has a passion for dancing. She went after her dreams not listening to anyone that told her she couldn’t. Eventually she even made a difference that changed the world. I, also, have a passion for dancing. Multiple people have told me in the past that I should quit dance and I should not dance anymore.

The story begins by describing the elderly African-American woman. She was dressed in her Sunday church clothes that was old and falling apart. She had an old corsage pinned to her dress. The shoes she wore

In, "The Family of Little Feet," Esperanza, Lucy, and Rachel wear the fancy shoes intended for women and they are excited to be experiencing what it feels like to dress in a grown up way. They walk around the streets in a very seductive way, which includes crossing their legs, and they are naive to the dangers of this. Some people realize the danger they are in and ask where they got the shoes and others call attention to themselves by complimenting the girls. Mr. Benny who works at the corner grocery store realizes that they could be potentially harmed and says, "Them are dangerous. You girls too young to be wearing shoes like that" (Cisneros 41).

She was wearing a yellow dress and white shoes that her mother had picked out for her. When she got to church so followed the Catholic rituals. She took a Bulletin, dipped