Artifact #10: Post-Writing Reflection
1. Without using the words of your thesis, please explain the overall claim you wrote about in this essay:
2. Relate one of the ideas of your essay to your own life and experience; how is this topic meaningful to your own life?
3. How might this topic be interesting or significant to people today (who haven’t read this story)?
4. Why do you think writers use “perspectives” like the feminist perspective to help them analyze literature and other media?
5. Do you relate to the experience of the girl in the story in any way—even if you haven’t literally had a fling with a werewolf, have you had any similar thoughts, emotions, or experiences in your own life?
6. Do currently you find anything confusing about the story and the way Angela Carter wrote it? Do you struggle with any aspect of the feminist perspective, understanding or using it?
- Red desires independence but her desire is blocked by the stereotypes of the patriarchy society. (Ariel)
- The overall claim I wrote about this essay is that I was okay go into it. (Karamoko)
- I would use freedom, because that something every young girl or child wants. (Kiana)
- The overall claim was that woman are not as foolish as men think we are. (Cheri) [NOTE: CHERI SEEMS TO UNDERSTAND THE ARGUMENT IN HER OWN WORDS; ALSO EXPRESSED DISSATISFACTION WITH THE TEMPLATE__ EXAMINE HER ESSAY TO SEE HOW SHE USED OR MODIFIED IT!!!!]
- The main character in the story desire confidence. Her main obstacle was her father. (Fanta)
2. Relate one of the ideas of your essay to your own life and experience; how is this topic meaningful to your own life?
- When I try to go talk to teachers I try to make people go away so I can be by myself. (Ariel)
- For real I don't know. (Karamoko)
- This topic meaningful my life because I don't have freedom and I feel her pain. (Kiana)
- I believe I am independent and strong in being a woman like LRRH. (Cheri)
- This topic is meaningful to my own life because as a woman I feel the same way of the little girl in the story. (Fanta)
3. How might this topic be interesting or significant to people today (who haven’t read this story)?
- People need to know it's okay if you need to get independent from a man. (Ariel)
- They would probably see how woman's are treated today. (Karamoko)
- Because they probably feel bad for her. (Kiana)
- This topic today is important because men and women still don't have the equality even though it is better but it is not as good as yet. (Cheri)
- It might be interesting if they think that fairy tails are old stories but sometimes people rewrite them. (Fanta)
4. Why do you think writers use “perspectives” like the feminist perspective to help them analyze literature and other media?
- To help readers get a better understanding. (Ariel)
- They were trying to send a message across. (Karamoko)
- Because it gives more emotions in the story. (Kiana)
- To see other points of view so people can not only get one side of a story. (Cheri)
- It's to make the different by telling us in the household who has the more power. (Fanta)
5. Do you relate to the experience of the girl in the story in any way—even if you haven’t literally had a fling with a werewolf, have you had any similar thoughts, emotions, or experiences in your own life?
- Yes. (Ariel)
- Nope, in no type of way. (Karamoko)
- I want to say emotions because thats feeling you need to know how somebody feel before you judge them. (Kiana)
- Yes I feel like I am not afraid of anything or any place, I also am very much loved in my family. (Cheri)
- No because I live my life differently. My life is not a fairy tails. (Fanta)
6. Do currently you find anything confusing about the story and the way Angela Carter wrote it? Do you struggle with any aspect of the feminist perspective, understanding or using it?
- No. (Ariel)
- Yeah, just a little bit, with the Company of Wolves, with the lady. (Karamoko)
- Yes because she change up just a little bit, and I didn't notices that until the end of the story. (Kiana)
- No I did when I first read it but after going over it I understand it. (Cheri)
- I struggle because it was difficult to find out where i have to put the perspective or not. (Fanta)