The short story, Girls at Play, was a short and interesting piece. After I had read the first paragraph I was starting to wonder what exactly my professor was having our class read. The story was about a group of girls who walked around their school with colorful bands around their wrists. During recess they would attract a group of boy’s attention by gathering around a flagpole with these wristbands on. The group of boys would then come up and snatch a wristband, of a particular color, off of a girl’s wrist. Each color of these wristbands meant something dirty that the girls had to do the boys during recess, behind the bleachers where the teachers couldn’t see them. The way the author describes these wristbands reminds me of wristbands that
