The
adolescent: Carlota,the main character, invites us to use the
''purple glasses''.
After she receives a
gift by her gradmother, Isabel, because of her 14th birthday, Carlota is not happy: she has a lot of time waiting for an especial CD, and what she reveives is a diary. And all what she is teld is: ''there you can write about your boyfriends''. She smiles as ironically as she can, but she changes her face when she hears what her other
grandmother propouses:
''why don´t you write a diary full of feminist thoughts?''. She says to her grandmother:
''But we know men and women have the same rights, grandma!'', and she is replyied so fast:
''but if we work on that, this world will be better. And for that reason you have to write that diary''.
So, she decides to work on that and in order to find out how true was what her grandmother told her. From that moment, everything that sorround her change, and she looks the hidden male-chauvinism everywhere she goes. She will discover how the male-chaauvinism is still present in the society that sorround her. And sometimes, those men who are chauvinist do not realize the who they are, and the consequences of their acts.
The book is based on the societies and customs that seem to be equal, but it does not forget the customs that are not equal. The book makes us remind that there is no society, culture, or roles that can define or stablish men and women''s mode of behavior.
Then, as it were a game, Carlota decides to look at the world through the ''purple glasses'' her grandmother ask her to use and the ''conversion rule'' her mother told her about, and she continue finding out those bad discriminatory situations. And also, Carlota looks at the amazing rates that shows these situations.