Brownies The short story “Brownies” written by ZZ Packer and narrated by one of the Girl Scouts named Laurel or “Snot”, involves a confrontation in a restroom over a perceived racial slur between a troop of black Girl Scouts and a troop of white Girl Scouts. Ironically, the black troop comes to find that the white girls were in fact, retarded or “delayed learners”. The irony is doubled when the black Girl Scouts have no misgivings at even calling the white Girl Scouts “retarded” while arguing over the racial slur that was heard by the girls, “nigger”. Dramatic Irony is irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in play. Throughout the entire story, the black Girl Scout troop wants to physically confront the white Girl Scout troop over a racial slur that they weren’t even sure was said.
It is peculiar how the creator of the Smurfs decided to amass all the underlying personalities of a woman, which differs with each one, under one generic female smurf. In a certain light, her successes and failures represent all of femininity and woman kind as a whole. But, this is not the case, since women differ from each other in personality the same as men do. Grumpy, clumsy and jokey can all be attributed to a female, but are only apparent in the male smurfs. It brings about the question, what was the intention of the creator of Smurfette?
Maybe she has the most privileged lifestyle or she is the prettiest but there is a dominating factor that shows her as inferior to others. For example, in the movie Mean Girls, there is a pack of girls called “the plastics” and their alpha is Regina George, who recruits a new girl named Cady and makes her over into the newest member of the clique. The other girls that are a part of the clique are all fearing of Regina because she is pretty, rich and fits the ideal white high school female. “She’s the queen B- the other two are just her little workers.” (Mean Girls). Gretchen and Karen are Regina’s faithful minions who will do whatever it takes to stay in her good graces.
When the goblins learn that Lizzie does not plan to eat the fruit herself, they throw her money back at her and verbally and physically abuse her, pinching and kicking, tearing at her clothing, and smearing the juice and pulp of their fruit on her. Lizzie refuses to open her mouth and returns home with the penny in her purse. She invites her sister to suck the juices from her body, which Laura does. The juice of the goblin fruit now tastes bitter to Laura, and she wiggles in pain from having consumed it. But the cure works.
Also towards the end of the story in, The Grimm Brother’s Version, the two white pigeons attack the two stepsisters and pecked out each of their eyes. [Cinderella wanted to go the ball, but her stepmother gave her a huge list of chores to complete first.] This is why the animals make her a dress because she has no time to fix up the one that she wanted to wear, in Disney’s “Cinderella”. They also are turned into her horses, and the chauffeurs of her carriage, by the Fairy Godmother. These differences were made because the point of Disney’s version was for children to watch and enjoy it, compared to the Grimm Brother’s version which was just to spark interest into myths while placing cruel elements into the story of Cinderella.
Lai 1 John Smith Dr. K English 154 19 October 2011 Women and The Lottery Through a feminist perspective, women view themselves as strong individuals and would be appalled by a society viewing them as nothing more than a material property. In Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”, women had no voice in regards to public decisions and actions. For example, in the short story the townspeople had a tradition to sacrifice one person in the hopes of reaping the best harvest. In most cases the wives would be the first chosen, many feminists would view this as an abomination. Tessie Hutchinson, one of the main characters represents women who are being tyrannized by society because of their gender.
The Cookie Crumbles “The Cookie Crumbles” is an article about a not so typical Girl Scout group in America. In fact, this is one of the most controversial groups today. It may seem lame that this type of story would be in a college text book, but this article goes into detail about how these Girl Scout camps are being run by lesbians. The author Kathryn Lopez talks about how these young girls are being affected, and how their morals are changing today. As you get more in depth in the article, Lopez has a very liberal opinion on this controversial topic, as she talks about “Girls Speak Out” and girl scouts getting their “Decisions for Your Life” badge you can tell by her writing that she has a bias opinion.
On the other hand Lennie does something very stupid when in the barn with Curley’s wife. Lennie has an obsession of feeling or petting soft things and she knows about this. Curley’s wife told Lennie to pet her hair because it was soft and she knew Lennie would enjoy it. However it was a bad idea for her because he petted her hair a little longer and harder. She told him to stop when she started feeling his strength.
The next time that the two girls were teased by their parents, Elsie challenged her father, telling him that if he lent them his camera, a Midg quarter plate, the two girls would try to take a photograph of one of the fairies. While Arthur, Elsie's father, wasn't happy about it, after being pestered by his wife and daughter, he eventually gave in. After loading the camera with a glass plate and setting the camera's shutter speed of 1/50s, the girls took the camera down to the beck to photograph a fairy. 'Elsie had already prepared her fairy figures when no one was about,' says Frances in her book. The figures were painted onto a stiff paper and poked into the ground using flat-headed hatpins which was stuck onto
Others, including her mother and her Aunt, significantly shaped Sybylla’s identity. The impact of Sybylla’s mother’s words “you are lazy and bad” as well as “you’re really a very useless girl for your age” create a negative self-perception of her identity. The use of direct speech enables the reader to visualise and recreate the scene, therefore understanding the effects of other’s on the formation of Sybylla’s identity. Contrary to this, Sybylla’s Aunt Helen promotes positive growth in Sybylla by nurturing her. Her kind and gracious Aunt build’s Sybylla’s confidence and self esteem and is gentle and understanding, recognising her inner beauty, while reinforcing her physical beauty.