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Karen and Michelle are preparing for a party, where Michelle suggests them both to dress up with the theme of chocolate buttons - “the fabulous button sisters”. Michelle has already decided that she wants to be white and Karen should be the ordinary one – the brown one. The night when Michelle and Karen are going for the party are they making an agreement about to meet in ten minutes at the corner. When Karen arrives, she sees Michelle wearing some other clothes than they had agreed. This confuses Karen because they had made an agreement on what to wear.
Before the story gets to the night of the party, we gets a closer insight on the relationship between Karen and Michelle. Like the various ideas that Michelle has, for example that they only should eat one color of food at every meal. A kind of a diet, because they have to look good and stay skinny.
In the end of the story is Michelle travelling to Hollywood, because her mother live there, trying to be a star.
Characterize Karen
Karen is a girl, a “normal” girl would I describe her. She is looking up to her friend Michelle, and does what Michelle wants her to do. Karen’s old friend Conny has been sick for a time, and when she come back and wants to talk with Karen, starts some trouble between them. Michelle do not want Karen and Conny to speak together and Karen cannot say no to Michelle.
Karen lives home with her parents, and she hopes to be something big one day, like Michelle.
In the end when Michelle is leaving to Hollywood, is Karen trying to hook up with Conny again. Michelle does not respond on Karen’s letters. Their relationship stops.
Comment on Michelle and her behavior
Michelle is a girl who lives with her aunt. She wants to be something big one day, just like her mother. Her mother lives in Hollywood and her father had left them both. Michelle is a girl who always wants to be in the center of everything. She wants attention. Probably is she a good

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