My idea for the final exam question is: Using Metamorphosis and The Tattooer, explain how both stories focus on the importance of physicality.
In Kincaid’s work of literature this young girl is being thought by her mother how to be a proper woman? Is that still expected today? Why or why not?
I was looking at the questions some of the other students had submitted as test questions. One caught my attention, however, I wanted to change one of the readings used. The student said “Examine both “The Tattooer” and “Girl” on … Continue reading
Examine one of the texts we did during the semester and use quotes to analyze the message or lesson behind the texts.
If my previous question was too vague, which I think it might have been, I think another good one would be: How does the Metamorphosis build on the concept of there being an overly powerful work ethic within society, to … Continue reading
As I discussed in my previous post we read some very influential works of writing that made some kind of social commentary about the wider society in which we live in. For the test question I think we should compare … Continue reading
This reading, I feel, has been one of the most meaningful and powerful ones we have read all semester. It discusses the issues of feeling absolutely insignificant and alone to the wider world, and even to one’s own family. If … Continue reading
1. What’s the advantage or disadvantage of a poem? Pick a poem we read in this class, and explain how we would perceive it differently if it were wrote in essay. 2. Literature plays an important role in human history … Continue reading
“A Room of One’s Own” almost overwhelmed and turned me off with the narrator’s initial rambling about her trespassing. But then as I continued reading, the story jump started my imagination and made me thought about the numerous “what if” … Continue reading
In reading Girl by Jamaica Kincaid I couldn’t help but think about my anthropology class and the recent section of Gender, Sex and Sexuality that we have been discussing in class. This piece reminded me of gender expectations of certain … Continue reading
