Question

Read this excerpt from “Life Without Go-Go Boots” by Barbara Kingsolver and answer the question.

We lived in the country, in the middle of an alfalfa field; we had no immediate access to Bobbie Brooks sweaters. I went to school in the hand-me-downs of a cousin three years older. She had excellent fashion sense, but during the three-year lag her every sleek outfit turned to a pumpkin. … My black lace-up oxfords, which my parents perceived to have orthopedic value, carried their own weight in the spectacle. I suspected people noticed, and I knew it for sure on the day Billy Stamps announced to the lunch line, “Make way for the Bride of Frankenstein.”
Judging from the diction in the above excerpt, what is one of the writer’s themes?

Fashion turns people into monsters.
People mistakenly and cruelly judge you based on fashion.
Fashion is good for your posture and social status.
Fashion accurately shows the world your worth.

Answer 1

People mistakenly and cruelly judge you based on fashion.

Answer 2

Answer: B) People mistakenly and cruelly judge you based on fashion.

Step-by-step explanation: In literature, the theme is the underlying message of a story, it is what critical belief about life is the author trying to convey in the writing of a novel, play, short story or poem. Usually this belief, or idea, is universal and transcends cultural barriers. In the given excerpt from “Life Without Go-Go Boots” by Barbara Kingsolver, we can see developed the theme of people cruelly judging other people, based on fashion (people at school judged the speaker for her black lace-up oxfords).