Loretta Graziano online article “Just Say “No” to Garfield” explains her
opinion about saying no to buying listened character’s products for her daughter.
Throughout the article she explains how everything in today’s society that we
buy has some kind of advertising features or famous character’s emblazoned on
them .She states, "You can't buy toothpaste without insistent demands for
Mickey Mouse toothpaste; you can't buy vitamins without confronting appeals
for Flintstones vitamins".(Graziano Par 2). No matter what
season it may be there are always the same faces on things despite the
holiday. In another paragraph she states, “My daughter started asking
for Care Bears at age two, and she let me know that any bear would not
do".(Graziano Par 3). From then on she started buying more generic brands,
not only did she realize the generic brands were cheaper but she let her child
express freely her own creativity and thought . From letting her name her name
the generic doll to decorating on the generic wrapping paper were all ways that
allowed her child to be herself and save her ability to think by herself.
By refraining from the normal lifestyle, she rewards her daughter with certain
name brands once in a while to promote that compromise is good.
Work Cited
Loretta Granziano " Just Say "No" to Garfield" Center for Media Literacy.,Media & Values.1989.Issue #47. Web.9 November 2013
http://www.medialit.org/reading-room/children-just-say-no-garfield#bio
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