Monday, April 7, 2008
Topic Proposal for Essay 3
I have chosen to write about “How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or Halfie” by Junot Diaz. I am going to write about how the speaker’s low socioeconomic standing affects the actions he takes throughout the story. This story is not very old (written in 1996) so the paper will be a cultural analysis more than a historical one. The culture in this piece is one of a low socioeconomic background. The speaker of the story lives in an apartment complex that is constantly exposed to violence and looked down upon by people that live in more prominent areas of town. It takes place in New Jersey. Knowing this information helps me understand a lot of the actions the speaker takes throughout the story and why he feels certain ways about different types of girls. I am going to research topics such as housing projects, low-income families, etc. My thesis is: The type of environment that one grows up in determines one’s self-confidence, opinions, and actions.
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Anne Katherine, it looks like you are on a good track. Now your task is to stay focused on the story and making sure that any cultural clues you mention are only there because they are so-to-say matched up with a quote or reference to an element of this story you are analyzing. Also as you write your draft, think of way to make your thesis a bit more specific. You could articulate it more specifically along the following lines “ In this story, environment X determines the narrator’s traits A, B, and C; opinions D, E and F; and actions G,H,I.”
I thought you wrote a very good topic proposal i think you can def. get a really great paper out of this. I thought about choosing this story and after reading yours it made me want to write about it even more.
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