1. Read the story Girl in your anthology.
2. Then read the short critical article here.
3. Next, re-read the story.
4. Finally, write a carefully constructed response based on this assignment:
Low Stakes Writing
Response Paper
Write your paper at your google document site, then share it with me for credit.
Length: about two pages word processed, double spaced
Audience: academic audience, including peers and instructor, the group of educated people who understand and appreciate literature.
Purpose: to demonstrate that you have read and comprehended the text; to express your intellectual response to the text; to help you become more curious about how literature works.
Prompt: read the story/poem Girl by Jamaica Kincaid. Then write a series of paragraph in which you discuss how Kincaid describes the life of women and girls in this culture. In what ways are their lives difficult. How do they react to or even overcome the difficulty? How do women retian their individuality in the face of oppression?
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