How To Date A Browngirl Blackgirl Whitegirl Analysis

“How to date a brown girl (black girl, white girl, or halfie)” and “Girl” are both an extreme representation of what life was and sometimes still is for many women. They’re both based on a standardized conception of how women should act towards society. Even though these two stories have similar messages, the points of view from where each story is told are different. “How to date a brown girl” is narrated by a teenager who believes is experienced with girls from all types of ethnicities. “Girl” seems to be a story of a mother trying to help her daughter by telling her how she’s supposed to behave. Besides the confident, self-assured tones in both narrators, the expectations that society places on women are the true similarities shared between these two

The author creates a mood of being irritating by her “…awful grandmother…” and brothers “…Alfredito and Enrique…” who are occupied playing outside as “… a B-Fifty-two bomber…” [paragraph 5] and her grandmother with a “… long, long list of relatives … names of the dead and the living into one long prayer…” [paragraph 10]. Including, the imagery provided in the short story described the character’s actions by watching her grandmother pray while she counts her grandmother’s mustache hairs. Later, an unknown lady and man start talking to her brother asking if she could take a picture, than judging by their looks, they assume they do not speak English but only

The short story “How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, and Halfie” by Junot Diaz is the main character, Yunior’s, guide to dating girls of different races and the ways to act in order to get what you want from them. The only thing Yunior seems to want for these girls is sexual acts. This short story argues that a person’s heritage, economic class, and race affect how a person identifies themselves, and how their identity affects how they act towards other people. The pressures a person may feel from society also has an effect on how a person treats themselves and others. The pressure and expectations from society are also what makes Yunior think he needs to have sex with these girls. There are many different occasions of the main

describes the young Dominican American man who is looking for to date either a Latina girl, black girl, white girl or half girl how to judge and approach girls from various social classes and ethnicities differently based on his opinions. Throughout the story, the author uses the second person omniscient point of view to make it easier for the reader to relate to the story and assimilate the case because it’s the referring to something we have all done no matter what our ethnicity is. This point of view is necessary to the story because both he is talking to himself and giving advice to himself by using “you/your” throughout the text, therefore, as a reader, I personally, can easily put myself in the narrator’ shoes and, also, the author addresses the reader or listener directly as if he were talking to them by sharing his observations.

In the early paragraphs the narrator describes where to hide the cheese in his fridge and what to do with the pictures of “halfnaked kids dragging a goat on a rope leash” and “pictures of yourself with an Afro” (1). All of this hiding, in preparation of the girl coming over, shows certain shame the narrator may feel in regards to his culture and where he comes from. This may be due to the fact that his culture may not necessarily fit in with that of the world in which he now lives. He even tells a story about how a neighbor collected tear gas canisters, and one day they cracked and the neighborhood got flooded with the gas. However, he deliberately leaves out the fact that his mother knew what the gas was, because she remembered “the United States invading your island” (2). This is an excellent example of a sort of shame in where the narrator comes from, the fact that his mother actually came from the island, after it had been attacked and invaded by the country in which he now lives. The narrator may be trying to distance himself from his island culture to further advance through the culture of the land that overtook what once was his family’s

Since “Annabel Lee” and “The Highwayman” are both narrative poems, the speakers of each story influence certain features of the plots. The narrator of “Annabel Lee” is also the affected lover who is recalling the catastrophic incident that is his lover’s death. Since he is actually a part of the storyline, he conveys the plot the way he had experienced it as it began “with a love that was more than love” but progressed onward to the “killing [of his] Annabel Lee”. The passionate narrating establishes his reliability as a narrator as the audience can truly sense his pain. However, the narrator of “The Highwayman” is not involved with any aspect of the storyline and, therefore, tells the story from a bystander point of view. Even though the narrator is not directly impacted by the events, they are still able to captivate the audience by utilizing lifelike elements, such as the “tlot-tlot; tlot-tlot” of the horse, to institute their trustworthiness as a narrator. Therefore, both narrators within “Annabel Lee” and “The Highwayman” add different elements of persuasion to their narratives to establish an authentic storyline.

The young ladies in the short stories are judged throughout the story based on their race, ethnicity, and physical features. They are also described in a symbolic aspect, as the young ladies are continuously described by certain features and actions. The short stories are both examples of how men have different views based on the characteristics and actions of various young ladies

I identify as a straight female. Although in the past I’ve only had white partners, I am attracted to a spectrum of men. Throughout my life I have always told myself that I was only interested in men. As I approached college more and more I became slightly more interested in women. I have felt like being attracted to men is what’s considered to be socially correct and so I fit into the cookie cutter. These ideas and thoughts are something I’ve only shared with two people.

Diaz uses a story of his mom to penetrate his entire essay. His mom, as a Dominican girl, could get an education and immigrate to the United States. It was incredible and rarely at that time. At the beginning of the essay, Diaz states directly “ I think of my mother, of course. She’s one of those ironwill rarely speak figures that haunt” ( Diaz, 128) to start his story. That is his way to express how he thinks of his mom. He chooses one significant sense that shows how hard her mom tried to be educated when she was in the Dominican Republic to explain why he thinks his mom is tough. For example, “ Two days before the move, she got down on her knees beside a stagnant puddle of water, put her mouth in it and drank deeply” (Diaz, 129). After reading this part of the story, the readers can understand the reason why He thinks of his

After carefully reading the paragraphs once more I was able to identify the narration of the voices from the Aunt and the 18-year-old cousin. When the cousin speaks she talk about not being primitive growing up in America. She see's herself as American and hates the traditional customs of her family. The cousin goes into detail about her plans for the future and her American boyfriend who is older than she is. Truth be told the boyfriend is her high school history teacher and the cousin is impregnated by him. Later her family found out about it and had to have an abortion which is very gruesome by detail. When the Aunt speaks she continues the story about the 18-year-old cousin she is severely punished and is sent back to Puerto-Rico. The aunt describes it as the irony of all ironies because the cousin has been to a remote village to live a relative on her mother side of the family they now call her la gringa "is what she always wanted to be ha ha ha". The Aunt is amused by the scandal because it sent her ex -husband back to the bottle which was karma for leaving her on the island and marrying another

The truth is sometimes a very frightening thing. In the stories "A Streetcar Named Desire" and “The Lady with the Dog” both seem to demonstrate dominant men trying to manipulate the women in their lives. However, only one changed his toxic ways. The author demonstrates through symbolism and narrating that. While Stanley from “A Streetcar Named Desire” and Dmitri Gurov from “The Birthmark" are comparable in their blatant disrespect for women, they are distinctive concerning love and willingness to develop.

The short story “Tiny, Smiling Daddy” by Mary Gaitskill is presented as a third person narrative. In this form of writing, the narrator is only observing the story and uses the main character's perspective to project the events. With only the perspective of the main character, Stew, there is a constraint with a limited knowledge point of view. The reader is only exposed to what Stew knows, observes, and on occasion, feels: “How could she have done this to him? She knew how he dreaded exposure of any kind. She knew how ashamed he had been when, at sixteen, she announced that she was lesbian.” (36-39). Gaitskill provides background memories from Stew’s perspective as well, which makes it even more skewed and subjective. His daughter Kitty, is the only Kitty that Stew envisions and nothing else.

The narrative voice in Perfume by Süskind actually helps to make the story of Grenouille’s life clear instead of misleading the audience. To begin, the narrative voice gives the audience a clear understanding as to how Grenouille’s early life began. The voice gives us clear details on how Grenouille was passed from place to place as a baby because no one wanted to take care of him.

In the story, there is an exploration of female vulnerability, and victimization in the rape fantasies. Atwood through using the voice of the first-person narrator, Estelle, to show that women have been unconsciously accept the idea, which is created by the media, that women are inferior and submissive to men. Estelle is critical to the romantic fantasies of her coworkers as they accept the

As reading “The Lady with the dog” the plot seemed to be written with the idea to be unpredictable. In my opinion I found it very selfish and it left me viewing this as a love story for love is to be selfish. This man does not respect women, “He had first begun deceiving her long ago and he was now constantly unfaithful to her, and this was no about why he spoke slightingly of women, to whom he referred as the lower race. He considered that the ample lessons he had received from bitter experience entitled him to call them whatever he liked, but without this “lower race” he could not have existed a single day” (Chapter 1). This shows his dependance on women, he has the need as though its basic human nature to be with a women.