Connie and the Sandman Ladies

There was an abundance of description in this story, I see why she chose this for us to read before we did our "people watching. " The first couple of paragraphs remind me of an exercise I'm sure you all have done, where you have to describe a room or person in as much detail as possible. Campbell Starts out by vividly describing Connie's room, first through sight, then by sounds and finally with smells. Campbell also chose to introduce the presence of drugs early on and very casually, which is symbolic of Connie's life, drugs have been a given part of her life from an early age. By the end you definitely feel as though you know Connie her lifestyle incredibly well, which was clearly Campbell's motive for writing the peace, "I wanted to ... represent their [girls in gangs] their own views of their situation."