The characters I want to focus on are Mercedes and Sylvia. Mercedes is a very clear outlier to all the children in this story. Everyone else had some sort of reaction to the toy store. Every other child was in some state of disbelief. She was the only one that walked in and was not shocked by the amount of money that all the toys cost. She treated it like it was something that she was used to seeing, that was normal to her. Mercedes seems to know more about the items than the other children like she knows what the paper weight does. Her main response to the whole experience was when she casually mentioned she wanted to come again when she got birthday money. Now Sylvia had the complete opposite response. Her was one of shock and more anger. She seems to almost understand the point that Miss Moore is trying to show her, but Sylvia is having a hard time accepting it. It angers her that other people get to have these extremely expensive toys, and have the money to so causally spend 1,000 dollars on a sailboat. I’m sure that it is also worse that one of her classmates gets to have this kind of life and Sylvia doesn’t.
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Hi Eoin. I love your point of view. I completely agree that Mercedes wasn’t at all surprised. She took it well as opposed to Sylvia. I think the fact that Mercedes said that her dad would buy her something if she asked shows that she can get things easily. Sylvia can be relatable. It’s hard to think that there are people living so comfortably when others are living paycheck to paycheck. It was tough for her to accept that she agrees with Miss Moore.