Scribner: Read Toni Cade Bambara "Raymond's Run" and Jamaica Kincaid "Girl"
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Post response to these questions:
"Girl"
- How would you
read "Girl" differently if it were titled "Mom?" - What would the text look like if Girl did most of the talking?
- If the girl in "Girl" were a boy, what would Mom be telling him? What if Dad were talking instead?
- The girl in "Girl" seems caught up in a complicated culture that keeps going on from generation to generation. Is there any way for girl to break that cycle?
- Why is Mom so obsessed with her daughter's sexuality? Can you see parallels in today’s world?
- Are there any
benefits to the lessons Mom is teaching Girl? - What kind of upbringing do you think Mom had? Is she speaking from her own experience, or are these rules that her own Mom taught her?
Short quiz on Raymond's Run:
1. People would probably analyze the story looking at the mother's overbearing nature as opposed to how girls are brought up in society.
ReplyDelete2. I think it would be very combative and honestly weaker for it. One of the reasons the story is so effective is because the girl doesn't talk back, she doesn't really have a voice to defend herself with.
3. If the story was a mother talking to her son, she'd probably be putting a ton of responsibility on him and teaching him how to act like a proper man. If a father were speaking to his daughter, I think that he would be telling her the same thing the mother said.
5. People have weird views on sexuality when it comes to girls. They think that girls should be modest and puritan and conservative and blah blah blah, especially back in olden times. Nowadays it's not as bad, but like, girls aren't allowed to show their shoulders in school so there's definitely still remnants of all of that.
6. I mean, it's good to be modest I guess, but a lot of these rules are sexist as hell so I'm gonna say no.
7. She probably had the exact same upbringing. People like this tend to project what their parents taught them onto their children.