“Barbie Doll” by Marge Piercy and “David Talamentez on the Last Day of Second Grade” by Rosemary Catacalos are two poems that show a unique vision of society and the roles that society expects people to fill. Sometimes these expectations can lead people to take drastic measures or even cause rebellion in some people. The irony of this is that it seems that the more we push people to be what society wants, the more they push them to be what they don't want. In “David Talamentez…” (lines 57-59) “over by cars. On every single page David Talamantez crossed out the teacher's red numbers and wrote in giant, blue ink letters, Yes! David, yes!” Throughout the poem it is his teachers who do not accept him for who he is (13-17). “into the sewer and wanders home. David Talamantez believes birds are warm-blooded, the way they are fast through the air and emit long strings of complicated, ever-changing music, not like cats and dogs. This is why he was marked." His opinion does not meet the criteria of what science teaches and his teachers want to change his idea by marking him d...