Brownies

Throughout the story, Laurel is sort of seen as the outsider and the one that is made fun of. But when the troop has a common “enemy,” they are one group with one purpose, and even though Laurel is “afraid of fighting,” she feels like part of the troop as they travel to the bathrooms to meet up with Troop 909. The girls in Laurel’s troop do not appreciate the possibility of one of their members being called a terrible name by a girl in Troop 909 and were probably raised to not believe that whites are superior, but to believe that the whites think they are superior. The racialism that the girls believe happened to one of their own must be dealt with. I loved the twist in the story that revealed Troop 909 as a group of special needs girls. Those with special needs have also been discriminated against and it proved to the girls that they weren’t the only group of people that experienced prejudices or judgments. I don’t know if the girls fully understood that, but maybe they will later in life while looking back at the memory. I believe that if the girls of Troop 909 did fit the clichés that were presented in the story, the other girls would have felt fully justified in fighting them and pulling out their “shampoo-commercial hair.” Their assumptions about them would have been correct and the possibility of one of them calling Daphne that name would have seemed greater.