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Those Shoes is written from the perspective of a boy living at the lower end of his school’s socioeconomic scale.

The same day it snows and Jeremy proudly displays his new black winter boots. In the end he gives them away to Antonio, a classmate whose shoes are falling apart. Unable to afford a new pair of “those shoes,” Jeremy buys a too-tight pair in a thrift-shop. And what you need are new boots for winter’” (Boelts, unnumbered). The trouble is that, as his grandmother puts it, “there’s no room for ‘want’ around here-just ‘need.

Jones, tells the story of Jeremy, an elementary school kid who is desperate to buy a particular model of shoes: expensive sneakers that carry social status among his peers. Those Shoes, by Maribeth Boelts and Noah Z. Note: I wrote this paper for a different class, but it draws upon many texts from Re:reading.