B. write a paragraph or two analyzing desmond-harris’s use of a photograph and brand names to enhance her descriptions:
1. skim paragraphs 5-7, highlighting the specific details in the photo that desmond-harris points out as well as the brand names (usually capitalized) and the modifiers that make them more specific (as in skater-inspired).
2. look closely at the photograph itself, and consider its purpose: why do you think desmond-harris included it? what does the photograph contribute or show us that the text alone does not convey?
3. consider the effect that the photo and the brand names have on you as a reader (or might have on readers of about desmond-harris’s age). how do they readers envision these girls? what is the dominant impression you get of the young desmond-harris from these descriptive details? where, if anywhere, in this passage do you detect the adult author’s self-irony?