Plaits

I think in the book Mee Street Chronicles Frankie Lennon is trying to say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. In the story Shirley Temple represented beauty. She had beauitful golden hair. Her curls bounced and swayed as she tap danced. All the young girls wanted hair like hers especially Frankie. She thought that if she had hair like that she would be beautiful and kids won't tease her because of her plaits. Frankie got tired of the teasing and the hair pulling she went through to get the plaits, so one night she decided to cut them off. She woke up in the morning realizing that she ad messed up her hair and that it didn't look the way she planned. Her mother also reminded her of a play that she was going to be in where she wanted to have Shirley Temple curls but could no longer get them because her hair was too short to curl.Society puts a lot of pressure on women and young girls to look a certain way. The media makes them believe that if they don't look that way that they are not pretty. I think beauty is on the inside. It osn't all about looks. I think that if a woman is confident in the way she looks then she is beautiful no matter what the media or anyone else thinks.