The story "Ribbons" has examples of many sacrifices and lessons. Stacy loves to have ballet lessons, her father had to stop paying for them to get Stacy's grandmother in San Fransisco. Stacy and her grandmother has lots of problems together, and they need to work it out.
One of they're problems are with Stacy's ice-cream bar that she bought. When she came home from a long walk on a sunny day in the park she found her grandmother giving Ian(Stacy's little brother) her ice-cream bar that she bought. Stacy whined and whined, but the grandmother said sisters and brothers have to share. That would make me super angry, because I bought it with my own money and to find my grandmother feeding it to my little brother or sister would make me angry to the next level. Then, after I'm not angry anymore I would just go in the fridge and get something of my own.
The biggest problem they both had was when Stacy asked Paw-Paw for help with her toe shoe ribbons. Paw-Paw looked at the satin ribbons with hate and said "Give those to me." She held out her hand. Stacy said they were for dancing but Paw-Paw thought she was lying. Mother ended up coming in. She also too the ribbons and the shoe away. For the rest of the day they ignored each other. If one was in a room, the other would walk out. Things got more and more intense as they saw each other more and more. Early in the evening Stacy walked in on her grandmother sitting on the edge of the bathtub with her pants rolled up and her feet soaked in a pan of water. Paw-Paw snapped and told her to get out and she did.
Mother told Stacy what had happened to Paw-Paws feet. She said "There was a time back in china when people thought woman's feet had to be shaped a way to look beautiful. When a girl was about five, her mother would gradually bend her toes under the sole of her foot." I think the grandmother just thinks that Stacy's mother was doing that with her ribbons. Stacy finally realizes that her grandmother loves her in a different way while Ian gets spoiled with candy, toys, and ice-cream. After Stacy and Paw-Paw talked it out they loved each other like every grandmother and Grandchild should.
Stacy and Paw-Paw should talk before they start ignoring each other because if Stacy wouldn't have talked to her first then her grandmother wouldn't have known what her toe-shoes was for. I have learned something from this story because when i think that my sister wears one of my shirts and i blow up and shes wearing her own shirt and i feel completely embarrassed. This is why its always good to ask the person before you blow up or stop talking to them.