When Kimberly finally tells Annette that she works in the factory after school, Annette asks: “Do you really? Aren’t you too young? Isn’t that illegal”
(185)? Kimberly responds firmly: “This is not some abstract idea in your head. This is my life. If you do something to protest, we could lose our job.”
Annette assures Kimberly that she “can trust [her]” (186).
Discussion: You are Annette, a young, caring, socially-conscious teenager from an upper middle class family. Write a descriptive response in which
you explain how your friendship with Kimberly teaches you that life is not based on “abstract” ideas, but sometimes on desperate realities that often
defy that which is deemed “legal” by the society.
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