French Tales By Charles Perrault: Article Analysis

Before this class I believed men and women’s gender roles in society were strictly defined. As I gained more knowledge from the Critical Thinking Reader, The Grapes of Wrath, and my research project, I learned that gender roles change based on an individual’s environment, socio-economic standing, and societal norms/expectations. These resources helped clarify that men and women’s roles in society are interchangeable and there are no definite lines or barriers that keep them from fulfilling all roles, that being said men and women can also remain stuck in the roles society has traditionally seen them in.

Deborah Tannen’s case study entitled “Can’t We Talk?” is the most relevant reading that I have ever done for any class. It relates to a problem that every person regardless of age, race or sex, will have to face many times in his or her lifetime. The problem is that men and women communicate differently and these differences can often lead to conflict. This case study is very informative because it helps to clarify the thought process of each sex. That said this reading leaves the reader somewhat unfulfilled because Tannen does not offer a solution to the problem.

The essay I was assigned is “How To Write With Style” by Kurt Vonnegut. After reading the essay, I found that a theme that would best summarize it is “effective communication. Kurt Vonnegut writes in his essay about how one should write in order to attract the reader and effectively communicate your thoughts. His advice to writing as he calls it “How To Write With Style” provides an insight to some elements that allows the writer to effectively communicate his thoughts and be true to him or herself. Keeping it simple, Have the guts to cut, Sound like yourself, Say what you mean to say, Pity the readers are his advice to writers to become effective writers. After reading the essay, I looked at several stories and poems that shared a similar

Title: Compare-Contrast Essay In twenty first century communication is very important aspect to humans. People have to talk the way listeners like. When there is male and female working together, there always occurs a problem of communication. Men like to talk about one topic whereas women like to talk about different topic. This problem commonly occurs in newlyweds. The husband thinks that his wife is so over caring, on the other hand the wife thinks that her husband is not emotional. This problem occurs because both men and women have different types of talking styles, different ways of thinking, and different point of views. I am reading two articles based on this problem. One of them is “His Talk, Her Talk” by Joyce

2. I wrote informative text in my comparison and contrast and my analytical essay. I was able to take my prior knowledge and information and convey my ideas through these two papers. I was able to do this in an organized matter through the use of my outline.

Gender is one such convention that is taken to its limit in this story. The narrative opens with

The author does this by first listing positive attributes of girls with the use of parallel structures; shown through the statement," They are focused, purposeful and diligent." (Wente___). Then in the next statement depicts young boys as basement dwellers "playing video games."(Wente___). The use of parallel structures helps create a more substantial gap between the two genders as the first sentence lists positive attributes of girls and the second downplays boys.

Over the course of the semester, we have read many short stories that have shared very similar themes. The two stories that stood out the most to me were You Want Me White and The Youngest Doll. Not only were the stories both very compelling they share parallel themes such a social issues concerning women and form of gender disparity. Both authors Alfosina Storni and Rosario Ferre wrote during a time male dominance was an issue, women were looked at as objects that needed to devote themselves to their men.

: Choosing two or three different texts from the schedule, track the role of gender within the stories. Make a claim on what you see as important representation of gender, and filter all chosen texts through this lens.

We all long to write like someone else, maybe it is like authors such as Mark Twain , J.R.R Tolkien, Ernest Hemingway or Shakespeare- although I think the last one is much more like a dream than an actual aspiration-but I desire to write like Stephen King and Stephen Krashen , and even attain to imitate the manner in which they seem to analyze information, and translate such material in a form of a well-developed argument. As a consequence, it seems that the purpose of this summer assignment was accomplished , as according to Ms. Olaerts the purpose was to “give you an introduction to the kinds of reading you will see throughout the course and types of analysis that will be required of that reading.”

It is important to teach children about gender roles since it is something that society holds in regards, but most of the time in literature it is done unequally. The portrayal of gender in literature is based off of the expectations of society and places bias on gender. Boys are portrayed as strong, adventurous, independent and capable and often play the roles of fighters, adventurers and rescuers. Girls are portrayed as sweet, naïve, dependent, sensitive and emotional and play roles such as caretakers, princesses and mothers. The roles of gender portrayed in literature are often a reflection of the views of society and do not offer objective insight. Even though it is important to teach children about gender roles, the fashion in which it is done in does not allow children to see beyond those expectations. If a young girl is constantly read stories about a woman’s role as a housewife, homemaker and mother, she will assume that’s what is expected of her and will not know society will allow her to be anything she wants to be.

A story's structure can help highlight certain points that the author wants to address. The structure can also enable the reader to develop an opinion on the issues being discussed understanding them in connection to the author; “Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit” by Leslie Silko does this. As she goes into great depth explaining the differences from modern day society to that of the “old-time people” (par 3), she uses the structural forms of point of view, comparison and reflection to represent her stance on difference and beauty to the reader. The narrative by Silko is written in first person to signify that this tale of differences does affect her personally as she starts off stating that she is aware that she is different, “[f]rom the time I was a small child, I was aware that I was different…

Andersen examines representation of gender because both men and women need to be looked upon as equals with one another. For example, there are many times when a women needs help and most men think that she is a “damsel in distress”, because a woman that needs saving looks fragile and needs a “man” to save her. This also shows that usually the women are the ones being saved, so that the men can be the ones doing

When thinking about the French Revolution, one thinks about the act of revolting in its purest, most rebellious form. In the ten-year span in which the Revolution took place, France saw the overthrow of a 500 year-old dynasty, the representation of the Third Estate, and the rise of human rights and Enlightenment ideas. In summary, the French Revolution accomplished a lot in terms of modernizing France’s government and national ideology. When one quickly glosses over the obstacles and outcomes of the Revolution, it is easy to mistake that these advancements in freedom, democracy and thinking applied to all in every aspect of 18th century France. However, this assumption is false, especially in the issue of women’s equality.

Work Cited Bacon, Francis. “Of Revenge.” Reading Literature and Writing Argument. Editors Missy James, Alan P. Merickel, Greg Loyd, and Jenny Perkins, 6th ed. Pearson, 2016, pp. 338-339.