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Review essay handout guidelines
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Choose a story that you find interesting and intriguing.
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Choose a specific theme or explore in detail the setting, symbolism, or characters.
It is fine if your essay includes more than one of these categories.
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Make a list of scenes or moments in the story, which you could use to
develop your essay’s theme or focus.
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Create a thesis--a claim you are making and will support with these
examples.
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this blog, tell your classmates what story you are going to work on, and state
your thesis. Also try to list examples so your classmates can see how you are
approaching your topic and HELP you develop some of your ideas. REPLY TO ONE ANOTHER’S IDEAS ON THE BLOG!
How is Motherhood and Guilt depicted in “I Stand Here Ironing” by Tillie Olsen?
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The Burden of Motherhood
-The challenges it brings
-Single parent home
_Young Mother
-Obstacles faced (finding jobs, sending daughter away to be healthy)
Guilt or Regret
-The absence of being in Emily’s life
-The choices that Emily made
-Comparing children
Characters:
-Mother
-Emily
-Susan
Thesis:
Motherhood is an everyday role were you have to face oncoming challenges in order to provide, raise, and accompany your child throughout their lifetime. You are put in a situation where you either have help from a partner, family members, or you have to be a gladiator and take this challenge on by yourself. In “I Stand Here Ironing” by Tillie Olsen her fragmented writing style shows us the obstacle the mother faces is the burden of motherhood, the challenges brought forward, the guilt of being absent and comparing her children towards each other.
--Shanelle Hunter
I agree with you 100% motherhood is an everyday role and some days you do have help from people or you have to everything alone. I have 2 boys and I have a lot of help but there are days where it's just me and it gets very tiresome after a while.
DeleteHow is womanhood characterized in " Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid.
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-How to succeed at being a woman
-Being ladylike in public
- Mothers' harsh criticism of their daughters
- How to relate to a man
Characters:
-Mother/Daughter
Thesis: From the moment girls are born, they are instructed to be wifes by their mothers instead of being taught they can be more than that. They are taught that domestic skills are the most important skills. In " Girl" there is a long list of do's and dont's of what it means to be a woman. Most of which include cleaning, cooking, chores, relationship advice. None of which includes things neccesary to succeed outside of the home. The concept of what it means to be ladylike is thoroughly explored.
Edwin Mejia
I agree with you because from a young age girls are being taught about everything they need to know about how to succeed inside the home but they are not taught what is needed to succeed outside of the home and "Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid really highlights this fact.
Deletei agree with you with how females are taught inside the households by their mothers or parents. I grew up with 3 brothers and 3 sisters and i watched how my mother taught them compare to how she taught us boys. At one point we weren't allowed to do dishes and clean up the kitchen. I remember my step father saying that was the women job.
DeleteI agree with you all because I grow up doing everything in my household because I am the only girl besides my brother who doesn't do anything around the house just because he is guy. I remember my mother always say you need to do everything in the house because your the women in the house and I would always complain because my brother would just sit around and she would say because he's a guy. I don't regret knowing what I know what to do in my household because you never know the type of men you will need up with and someday we will leave our parents and form our own and we need to know how do keep our own household clean and nice just like our mother's taught us. I believe that "Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid fits well with this.
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ReplyDeleteThe story I found I found most interesting is “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid because it speaks of the fact that when girls are born as they grow older they are taught how “to be a decent woman”, how to be “lady like”.
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-How to be “lady like”
-How to treat your man
-How to be the type of woman society will accept
-Mothers’ criticism of her daughter
Characters:
-Mother
-Daughter
Thesis:
The short story “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid tells the story of a mother’s harsh criticism on her daughter and what she should do and how she should act to become “ladylike” and acceptable to society. The ideal of social construction of gender is something that everyone is taught from a very young age. For boys they are taught they should be strong and manlike, while for a girl they are taught to be ladylike. From a young age girls are taught how to be an acceptable daughter, later how to become an acceptable woman and finally how to become an acceptable wife. Girls are taught that the most important thing they can ever learn is what a woman should be and how a woman should behave. They are however not taught that woman are much more than a daughter, wife and/ or mother. And even today they are girls being taught that in order to be an acceptable woman you need to learn to cook, clean, have proper etiquette, doing things that woman do such as stitching and managing of household finances. Girls are also how to be crafty meaning how to act/behave around people you like and how to act/behave around people you don’t like.
The story I will be focusing on is "Boys and Girls" which spoke about the social construct of men and women within society and the twist of interchanging such roles and expectations.
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The social expectations of men and women
Honesty
Realization
Thesis: Society has shaped the way in which gender roles are to be seen. As time goes by, the social construction of gender only develops, and does so in the way where the basic expectance is the same but only accepted and changed into a different form. The roles of women and men are the same today as they were years ago, the only difference within our society today is some of the changes and movements to help with the adjustments of such beliefs. Frankly as much as those adjustments have been helpful with the shaping of our world today, the basic assumption and beliefs from years ago still exists.
My focus will be on Alice Walker's "Everyday Use"; the topic will be on leaving home vs. staying put.
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Mother vs. Daughter
Dee vs Maggie
New vs. Old
Country vs. City
Heritage
Everyday Use
Authentcity
Thesis:
When Dee went off to college she changed, she learned new things and adapted to this Aftro-Centrism. She taught she knew everything about her African roots. When she returned back home and saw her mother an sister Maggie living the same as before she left, she grew angry. Dee want the quilts and the items that was passed down from generation to use for decoration. Here the question of who really understand the culture/ heritage arise.
1."Trifles" By Susan Glaspell
ReplyDelete2. 'Small' details
-Death of Canary (symbolism)
-Morality (do women and men morals differ in-text)
-Kitchen setting
3."The law has to punish crime ,Mrs.Hale"
- " I wish you'd seen Minnie Foster when she wore a white dress...That was a crime! That was a crime! Who's going to punish that?"
-"But you know juries when it comes to women."
4. Morality in its simplest fom is the definition of right and wrong. In Trifles morality is divided between genders and all characters believe they know the correct punishment for the crime of murder. The complexity of the motive behind the crime results in the women hiding evidence and withholding it from the men. The line of morality is blurred in the men's want of law-abiding justice for the dead man and the women's want of justice for the 'real' victim (Minnie Foster).The small details led to the big picture.👍
???? still undecided will have one by tonight
ReplyDeleteThesis: Munro portrays social construction of gender in her work “Boys and Girls” by depicting the gradual evolution of the character, brought-forth by the indoctrination process that she’s so nonchalantly put through
ReplyDeletesalesman to father “could of fooled me.” “I thought it was only a girl.”
-mother to father “wait till Laird gets a little bigger, then you’ll have real hel… and then I can use her more in the house… its not like I had a girl in the family at all”
-characteristics of Mack (sooty and indifferent) vs Flora ( given to fits of mental alarm and more erratic)
-grandmother to her “Girls don’t slam doors like that/ Girls keep their knees together when they sit down/ that’s none of girls’ business.”
-significance of the changes in her dreams as the story unfolds
-father to her “Never mind, she’s only a girl.”
The theme of patriarchy in Desiree's baby
ReplyDeleteThe sacrifice that she had to make
why she was the one to be blamed
The story I will be writing about "Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid, and how women are taught their gender roles and how to act in society at a young age.
ReplyDeleteCharacters:
Mother
Daughter
Themes:
• How to act like a like a proper woman.
• How to keep your house clean.
• How to take care of a man and be taken care of.
• How to act in public and in private.
• How to act around people you like and dislike.
The mother kept telling her daughter how to behave in public and in private. How to do laundry, fix her ripped clothing and keep the house clean. How to smile with people she like and with people she doesn’t like; how to bully a man and how to be bullied by a man.
The story I'm going to write about is "desiree's baby" my topic will be origin/racism
ReplyDeletesome of my keypoints will be
- Origin
- Women's role
- race in the 1890's
- Desiree's final decision
Throughout the beginning of the story the question of Desiree's origin is something that does not seem to be a problem to anyone. When Armand Aubigny decided to marry Desiree he said that her origin and lack of name didn't bother him because he would give her a good name. When their child is not completely white he agrees that she should leave and does not believe that the child's genes could come from his side of the family.
The short story I will write about is “The Gilded Six-Bits”
ReplyDeleteSymblism: Gilded coin
Setting: 1933 Down South in an African American community.
Theme: All That Glitters Is Not Gold
Characters:
Joe Banks: Young African-American
Missie May Banks: Wife of Joe.
Otis D. Slemmons: claims to be rich
Joe's Mother
Clerk: owner of a candy store
Baby: Child born to Missie May.
Missie May’s betrayal
Joe treats his wife after the affair
The forgiveness after the baby.
Good choice. I thought of doing the same story but I ended up doing "Girl". The topics sound interesting. Good luck.
DeleteHere I stand Ironing
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- Motherhood
- Teen Mom
- Single Parent
- Guilt
- Sacrifices
Characters:
-Narrator
-Emily
-Susan
Thesis:
Being a mother brings a lot of happiness and joy, but it also is a lot of work. In "I Stand Here Ironing" By Tillie Olsen shows that sometimes you have to make certain choices for the better of your family. Olsen shows through her writing that the mother is faced with the burden and guilt of motherhood.
"Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid
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-The do's and dont's of how to be a woman
-How you are supposed to carry yourself as a woman
-Complications of being a woman
-How to carry yourself around men
-How to be accepted as a woman
Characters:
The mother
The daughter
Thesis:
The social construction of women are based on culture and values passed down from older and wiser women within their families. In the story "Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid we learn that girls have to carry themselves in a way where they have to cook and clean, do housework and learn how to carry themselves with proper mannerisms in both private and public as a young woman. The mother in the story is very harsh on her daughter and is trying to prevent her from growing up to be promiscuous. She is trying to teach her daughter how to survive and be accepted as a woman.
"Girl" By Jamaica Kincaid
ReplyDeleteThemes:
- How to act and carry yourself as a lady
- The do's and don'ts
- How to be accepted as a women
- The responsibilities and complications of being a women
- values and norms imposed on women by the society, and sometimes their own community and social group as well.
Characters:
- The girl and/or daughter \
- The mother
Thesis:
All throughout a girl's life, before reaching womanhood, girls are given advice on how to present themselves. This advice tells and/or helps to shape the mind, thoughts and personality of a woman. It may even help determine a woman's role in society. The short story "Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid consists of a monologue between a mother and her daughter, which in this case is the girl telling us the story.
ReplyDeletestory : boys and girls by Alice Munro
title: Is gender innate or constructed?
thesis statement:
Gender identity has been defined by the dictionary as: a person's inner sense of being male or female, usually developed during early childhood as a result of parental rearing practices and societal influences and strengthened during puberty by hormonal changes. The short story "Boys and girls" by Alice Munro demonstrates how gender is a social construction before it becomes and identity.
Quotes and scenes:
describing er mother's job:
Her hair was tied up in a kerchief, wisps of it falling out. She would tie her hair up like this in the morning ,saying she did not have time to do it properly, and it would stay tied up all day. It was true, too; she really did not have time. These days our back porch was piled with baskets of peaches and grapes and pears, bought in town, and onions and tomatoes and cucumbers grown at home, all waiting to be made into jelly and jam preserves, pickles and chili sauce…” (24).
"It seemed to me that work in the house was endless, dreary and peculiarly depressing; work done out of doors and in my father’s service was ritualistically important.” (25)
describing some sense of patriotism:
"I was pleased by the way he stood listening, politely as he would to a sales man or a stranger , but with an air of wanting to get on with the real work. I felt my mother had no business down and I wanted him to feel the same way.” (25)
first time being classified as a "girl"by a salesman:
"Could of fool me " (24)
constructing social gender , grandma scene:
" Girls keep their knees together when they sit down"(26)
Laird 's discovery of gender role and hierarchy:
"anyway it was her fault Flora got away" (30)
Dad scene , ambiguous response narrators acceptance of gender role:
narrator : " to my shame tears flooded my eyes "
Dad: " never mind " she is only a girl" (30)
ReplyDeletestory : boys and girls by Alice Munro
title: Is gender innate or constructed?
thesis statement:
Gender identity has been defined by the dictionary as: a person's inner sense of being male or female, usually developed during early childhood as a result of parental rearing practices and societal influences and strengthened during puberty by hormonal changes. The short story "Boys and girls" by Alice Munro demonstrates how gender is a social construction before it becomes and identity.
Quotes and scenes:
describing er mother's job:
Her hair was tied up in a kerchief, wisps of it falling out. She would tie her hair up like this in the morning ,saying she did not have time to do it properly, and it would stay tied up all day. It was true, too; she really did not have time. These days our back porch was piled with baskets of peaches and grapes and pears, bought in town, and onions and tomatoes and cucumbers grown at home, all waiting to be made into jelly and jam preserves, pickles and chili sauce…” (24).
"It seemed to me that work in the house was endless, dreary and peculiarly depressing; work done out of doors and in my father’s service was ritualistically important.” (25)
describing some sense of patriotism:
"I was pleased by the way he stood listening, politely as he would to a sales man or a stranger , but with an air of wanting to get on with the real work. I felt my mother had no business down and I wanted him to feel the same way.” (25)
first time being classified as a "girl"by a salesman:
"Could of fool me " (24)
constructing social gender , grandma scene:
" Girls keep their knees together when they sit down"(26)
Laird 's discovery of gender role and hierarchy:
"anyway it was her fault Flora got away" (30)
Dad scene , ambiguous response narrators acceptance of gender role:
narrator : " to my shame tears flooded my eyes "
Dad: " never mind " she is only a girl" (30)
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