Chris Shea Professor Christine Doyle ENG 348 02/02/16 Analytical Response Paper for Hope Leslie: Volume 1 In Volume 1 her of 2-Volume novel Hope Leslie, Catherine Maria Sedgwick demonstrates that in order for a character to be deep and complex, he (or she) does not have to be a white colonist from England. In this case we have Magawisca, who is, according to the introduction to the novel, the first complex Native American character in American literature. This means Sedgwick’s novel is a real testament to not only its feminist roots, but also to its race theory roots.
In “I Was a Skinny Tomboy” she struggles with finding who she is and her identity. In “Bad Boy” Walter feels that he has to be secretive about his hobbies and/or likes. In “ I Was a Tomboy Kid” the main character feels really tense so she keeps her fist clenched. “boys my age were encouraged to play some sport ; I liked the poem, I liked dancing.”
As a reader, we see two main characters, Clare and Irene. Irene has the ability to effortlessly pass as a white woman, but does not often do so. Clare happens
She mentions how us people always judge others based on their gender. In her personal story, her child's teacher describes her son as little security guard and she describes the son's friend as mini-hostess . Williams found this as a supporting argument because she said, When my son and his friend Jessie went through exactly the same motions, it was gender assignment that led their teacher to describe them in such unconsciously distinct ways. Another example William added was when a child is born, people always buy blue presents for the boy, and pink presents for the girl. This has a lot to say about how gender is looked at.
Similarly to Gertrude, Mrs. French “looks upon her husband as unfaithful, and regards [Clotel] as a rival”(n.p). Clotel’s beauty is now a curse and with her long, wavy, black hair serving as a symbol of “exotic” beauty, her mistress orders her to cut it off. Still “handsome,” with the help of a male slave at her new master’s plantation, she decides to pass as a southern gentleman to rescue her daughter, Mary, that she left behind as a servant in her own father’s home. Her ability to pass as an Italian gentleman serves a device to show how the mulatto was able to disguise him or herself and navigate freely through American society, thus shattering the basis of what race stands. When the Nat Turner revolts takes place, suspicious people are searched and Clotel is detected, not because of skin color, but because her suitcase only contains women’s clothing.
Claire Standish is labeled “The Princess” of the group as she is rich, beautiful, and possibly the most popular female at her school. Many people assume her life is perfect and a dream when in reality her parents are on the verge of a divorce. They use, pamper, and indulge her in order to spite each other and Claire is painfully aware of this. The group initially see Claire as a “snobby stuck up bitch” assuming she is solely shallow and materialistic.
The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named María is an essay by Judith Ortiz Cofer that addresses the impact of stereotyping on Latino women. Throughout the essay, Cofer relates her personal experiences with stereotypes to discuss how they have negatively affected her life and the lives of other Latinas. She also explains how these stereotypes originated and calls on her audience, the majority-white non-Latino population, to stop propagating the stereotypical portrayals of Latino women. In The Myth of the Latin Woman, Cofer speaks out about how stereotyping hinders the process of assimilating to a new culture by appealing to ethos through her personal experiences, using similes that show how stereotypes create isolation, and adopting
In “Women on the Breadlines” it says,” She kept scolding the girl, and the girl kept sobbing and sobbing because she was starving…. showing her legs so that the cook came out and gave her some food and some men gathered in the alley and threw small coin on the ground for a look at her legs.” This has so much emotion into it. This girl is starving and can’t get food, she is so incredibly hungry that she is willing to throw her innocence away for a morsel of food. The piece “Americans in the Great Depression” gives you the facts and conditions of the great depression, while “Women on the Breadlines” gives you the pain and back-breaking work people went
A woman dresses as a man who is pretending to be a woman. She is a flamboyant drag queen one day and a staunch feminist the next, an admired trendsetter and a shunned deviant. Her behavior varies with those she interacts with—if they admire intellectualism, she speaks of Monet, quantum mechanics, and Ulysses; if they appreciate a raunchy sense of humor, she mirrors their uncouth gregariousness. She has multiple identities of both gender and personality. They are all authentically hers—some were bequeathed to her and others she chose.
Cofer begins her essay by reliving an interaction she had with an Irishman on a trip to London, where the man re-enacted “María” from West Side Story. It was Cofer’s Hispanic appearance which led to the incident and the extra attention caused her to feel like an “island”. She felt out of place and insists that the same situation would not have likely occurred
The prejudice that the author brings forward strongly is the notion of feminism. The author’s main purpose of writing this novel is to examine the role of women played around
A normality in the literary world is that texts deeply nestled in the crosshairs of biopolitics, gender, nationalism, and other identity particularities often fall victim to one sided and dogmatic cultural critiques. Critic after critic find difficulty regarding how to analyze and essentially read a novel where intersectionality is intrinsic to its framework such as Kindred, because it does not fit the fairly common singular literary theory mold. This notion is articulated and defended in “"Some Matching Strangeness": Biology, Politics, and the Embrace of History in Octavia Butler's "Kindred"” where Robertson explores Butler’s usage of Dana’s body to confront universal truths and to cement the idea that Dana is in a historical paradox due
As a child, she recognized that her imitation of ‘White” afforded opportunities of mobility, education, acceptance and privilege. Her mother’s appearance as “Black” afforded opportunities of poverty, inferiority, and inequality. So, she fails to mention her mother’s identity and occupation to classroom peers and teacher. Sarah Jane wants cultural assimilation and white privilege.
Wharton’s uses Lily’s narrative to metaphorically highlight how gender oppression and repression results in dual identity as “masked social performance” that leads to her death as the ultimate answer. In other words,
Redefining realness by Janet Mock is a memoir in which Janet discusses essential aspects about her life and her path to womanhood. “I felt I had endured enough. From some cavernous place, I reached inside myself and grabbed the courage to take a long trip back to a place I never thought I’d revisit” (Mock 11). A young Hawaiian girl by the name Marilyn who Mock
