Please write a short essay response to the following question. You must use quotations or paraphrasing to support your response.
For the teenage girls in Random Family, what are the attractions of being a mother? What sort of power and influence -- real or imagined -- is associated with the role?
Use specific examples and references to at least one of the women in Random Family to examine and explore the above questions. Be sure that you elaborate enough to make clear your ideas.
Thursday, October 18, 2007
In-Class Response - GA - 10/18
Please write a short essay response to the following question. You must use quotations or paraphrasing (the author's idea but written in your own words) to support your response.
On page 94, the author says, “Being stuck in the courtroom was not so dissimilar to the insularity of a block in the ghetto; other people’s humiliation became a source of entertainment, and the seriousness of what was at stake got lost in the heightened significance of petty things.”
Using an issue that confronts the characters, give an example of what LeBlanc might be talking about in the above quotation. Be sure that you elaborate enough to make clear how your example supports the quotation.
On page 94, the author says, “Being stuck in the courtroom was not so dissimilar to the insularity of a block in the ghetto; other people’s humiliation became a source of entertainment, and the seriousness of what was at stake got lost in the heightened significance of petty things.”
Using an issue that confronts the characters, give an example of what LeBlanc might be talking about in the above quotation. Be sure that you elaborate enough to make clear how your example supports the quotation.
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
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