Read this excerpt from "Life Without Go-Go Boots" by Barbara Kingsolver and answer the question. We lived in the country, in the middle of an alfalfa field; we had no immediate access to Bobble Brooks sweaters. I went to school in the hand-me-downs of a cousin three years older. She had excellent fashion sense, but during the three-year lag her every sleek outfit turned to a pumpkin My black lace-up oxfords, which my parents perceived to have orthopedic value, carried their own welght in the spectacle. I suspected people noticed, and I knew it for sure on the day Billy Stamps announced to the lunch line, "Make way for the Bride of Frankenstein."

Also judging from the diction in the above excerpt, what would you say is the tone of this personal essay?