Question

15 points

11. Choose one of the following prompts to discuss in a 1-paragraph
essay, using specific examples from the texts to support your reasoning,
Option A: Many of the characters or speakers in these selections are
struggling to find their way. Discuss at least one character from this unit
and explain their struggle. Use evidence to support your answer. Option
B: Some of the relatively recent stories and poems in this unit may be
ignored by future readers, and others may gain staying power and
appear over and over in anthologies like the one you are using. Select the
one that you think will last and that is still relevant to today and explain
your choice. Option C: Explain the impact of female writers during the
Post-modernist literary period. Using the story, "I Want to Be Miss
America," explain how stereotypes were discussed in literature during
this time period. Use two examples fro the story to support your
response. *
Your answer

Answer 1

Answer: C

Her pain seeps through her lettering slowly at first, then it rushes at the reader to make the strongest point of all; the standard of “American Beauty” is still haunting her to this day. One point I would like to bring up is that not all cultural standards are bad. There is some amount of stereotyping which we all must exist within the confines of if we are to live in this world.

I can feel her as an insecure teenager, and later as a wounded adult. She is strong, and I believe that she does not still exist within the confines of her standard of beauty that she had as a teenager, but she is very much aware of how this still affects her subconscious. I believe she would like to see the view of beauty (in today’s society) as allowing all people to be different, but all equally beautiful – without judgment. It is not impossible to change the very essence of who and what society is – after all, are we not the very people who create our own society on a daily basis? When one can realize this, one needn’t be stuck in this cultural muck (too terribly much). I have hope that things can change.

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