" (97). The children walked along the street and Flyboy points out a handcrafted sailboat for one thousand one hundred ninety dollars. Sylvia doesn't believe it and has to check twice to reassure that the price tag was really one thousand one hundred ninety dollars. Sylvia asks, "Who'd pay all that when you can buy a sailboat set for a quarter at Pop's, a tube of glue for a dime, and a ball of string for eight centsMy sailboat cost me about fifty cents"(99). From this statement Sylvia is starting to get a hint at the differences in social classes. Sylvia questions who in the right mind would spend one thousand one hundred ninety dollars on a sailboat when you can get a cheaper sailboat for only 50 cents. Sylvia knows that those who are able to make this expensive purchase are only rich folks. Sylvia, who earlier disagreed with Miss Moore about being poor and living in the slums, is starting to realizing her true self and where she stands in the social class. .
Miss Moore allowed the kids to enter the toy store. On page 98 it reads, "So me and Sugar turn the corner to where the entrance is, but when we get there I kinda hang back. Not that I'm scared, what's there to be afraid of, just a toy store. But I feel funny, shame. But what I got to be shamed about? Got as much right to go in as anybody. But somehow I can't seem to get hold of the door, so I step away from Sugar to lead. But she hangs back too. And I look at her and she looks at me and this is ridiculous. I mean, damn, I have never ever been shy about doing nothing or going nowhere." Why does Sylvia feel ashamed for entering a toy store? Sylvia feels ashamed because she knows that she doesn't belong in that toy store. She knows she can't afford any of the toys inside F.A.O. Schwarz, so has no business being in there. Sylvia at first did not know much about the differences in social classes and the fact that she felt ashamed of walking into the toy store proves to us that she is now fully aware that she is in the low class.