Very nice discussion. I hope you can see how it works. I am posting early this week. Your first response is due by 10:50 on Tuesday, March 3.
Okay, this next week you will be working on writing drafts of your short story analysis. Which of the stories that we read for this week seem to be the most revealing about any aspect about what it means to be a man or a woman in our society? What kinds of ideas does the story present? Do you agree or disagree with those ideas?
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After reading all the stories, I found the short story by Gloria Naylor to be the most revealing about what it means to be a woman in our society. From the first narrative point of view, the audience realizes how the society’s opinions move from acceptance to disapproval as they notice more things about the two girls. When the narrative point of view changes to how the girls feel, the audience realizes how insecure one of them feels as she notices the neighborhood acting strange around them. I think that the story is presenting ideas of what it means to be “acceptable” in our society today.
ReplyDeleteThe story that I chose was The man who was almost a man by Richard Wright. The audience sees how the character views being a man to what being a man really is. The more you read on in the story you start to see that he is not much of a man but he thinks he is. In this story the boy wants to be accepted as a man in the eyes of society and to him it means having a gun. in the end you see that the he isnt a man because he runs from his responsiblity.
ReplyDeleteThe story that reveals about the difference betweem man and the woman in the society is the story "Boys and Girls" written by Alice Munro. In this story, the writer describes the difference between boys and girls by the work they do. The man does the outside work whereas the woman does the household chores.
ReplyDeleteIn Richard Wright's "The man Who Was Almost a Man" it really lets you know what it means to be a man in today's world. It shows that most men think that just because they get a little bit of power it makes them a man, but they are mistaken. Just because you have a gun definitely doesn't make you a man, most of what makes you a man is what you don't do. IT's how you think about things and how you perceive things.
ReplyDeleteI think the story "The Man Who Was Almost a Man" by Richard Wright is the most
ReplyDeleterevealing about what it means to become a man in society. The fact that the young man
who buys a gun in the story does it for the sole reason of being a true man is wrong,
and the story ends up showing that a man need to be responsible for all his actions. I
agree with the story. A true man, and even any mature being, has to be responible and
stand behind whatever they do or believe.
The story that most stood out to me was "The Two" by Naylor. Apperantly it was very looked down open to be a woman and have feelings for another woman. I think today it is still looked down opon but i dont think it should be. I think just like how everyone is entitled to their own opinion i think people should be entitled to their own feelings with out caring what other people think. I dont think you should have to seek aproval from a society.
ReplyDeleteI think "Boys and Girls" reveals the stereotype of boys and girls in society. The main character though, breaks those rules by helping her dad with outdoor work, and she enjoys this more than working inside with her mother. The mother in the story suggests that her daughter should be inside the house helping her, since it's the "ladylike" thing to do. Working outside and doing hard labor isn't something a girl should be doing, according to the mother. I don't agree with these ideas, I think no matter what the sterotypes are, you should do what makes you happy.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Brian. In the story "The Man Who Was Almost a Man" the boy is so set on proving that he is a man, he ends up showing how immature he really is. Running away from his problems and lying are definitely not qualities of a real man, so he is obviously still a child. He wanted to have a gun to show that he was a man, but then he acts irresponsibly with the gun. So in the end having a gun doesn't make him a man at all.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Grace about the stereotypes revealed in the story of “Boys and Girls.” They reveal a lot of ideas that society has regarding the duties of men and women and how they are expected from them at such a young age. I think that the stereotypes are changing today and are somewhat different from years ago when women were expected to only stay home and be ready for the man to come back from work. Today, so many more women are out working and taking care of their families, proving that they do not have to mold into the stereotype of what it means to be a woman any longer.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Grace as well. Our society seems to always make stereotypes in men in women as something to follow. This goes against what adults had told us since the day I can remember "You and be and do what you want as long as you are happy." In "Boys and Girls" the girl is faced with over coming the typical stereotype of how girls and boys, pertaining to the activities that either should preform. But like Grace said "I don't agree with these ideas, I think no matter what the sterotypes are, you should do what makes you happy." If you are doing something that you enjoy and makes you happy no one should be able to stop you.
ReplyDeleteim going to have to comment of freddy's post. and i am going to agree with him. i think just because u have a gun doesnt make you man. inside you may feel more powerfull knowing u have a gun but if u dont know how to use it or sometimes even if you do use it for the wrong things it makes u no more than the boy you were before having a gun.
ReplyDeleteI agree with brian. The boy is so set on trying to prove to himself and society that he is man that he comes no where close to it. Even though he has a gun does not make him a man at all. In this story it shows through him what a man really is.
ReplyDeletehe is trying to fit into a stereotype and a label that society has put on men and having power and even with having a gun he doesnt know the responsiblity that not only comes with being a man but also having a gun. Being a man means taking up for your actions and consequinces and to him it means running awawy from them.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Brian, all the boy does is take more responsibility and does not know what to do with it. With a gun you have a lot of power, but in the words of Spiderman's Uncle Ben "with great power, comes great responsibility" the boy misused his power and it got in the way of what he had to do and did not handle his responsibility correctly.
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