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TO DO: Make a connection using two texts studied – put “this and that together” – and explain both the details and the significance of that connection (Note: one of these "texts" can be a detailed rendering of personal experience). Other (possible) things to do: 1. Answer the question, “What is this story or essay about?” 2. Make a connection between two texts – put “this and that together” – and explain both the details and the significance of that connection 3. Locate yourself in a conversation (from class, from your reading, from life) 4. Agree with a writer and extend his or her ideas with your own examples 5. Ask a question, then answer it 6. Reconstruct a “light bulb moment” ARTICULATE YOUR ARGUMENT IN A SENTENCE OR TWO: At the end of Fatal Attraction, the Angel kills the Monster. WHAT NEEDS TO BE MADE MORE SPECIFIC? Angel – WHAT ARE THE QUALITIES THAT MAKE A WOMAN AN ANGEL? HOW DO THEY FIT BETH GALLAGHER (ANNE ARCHER)? Monster – WHAT ARE THE QUALITIES THAT MAKE A WOMAN A MONSTER? HOW DO THEY FIT ALEX FORREST (GLENN CLOSE)? Check back in the G&G essay; watch the entire movie (at least twice). What do these characters do that fits the descriptions found there? Beth Gallagher: Alex Forrest: WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT? (in life? to the movie? in terms of the essay?) According to Virginia Woolf, before a woman “can write,” she must “kill the angel in the house.” Here, the opposite happens. Instead of overturning a form of oppression against women, the movie reinforces it. NOW YOU’RE READY TO WRITE A SOLID ARGUMENT— According to Virginia Woolf, before a woman “can write,” she must “kill the angel in the house,” and yet at the end of Fatal Attraction, the Angel kills the Monster. Beth Gallagher “saves her family” and resumes her position as self-sacrificing mother and wife, forgiving her cheating husband, and ridding them both of the woman who “won’t be ignored.” LOOK AT THE PARTS OF YOUR ARGUMENT AND LET IT STRUCTURE YOUR ESSAY According to Virginia Woolf, before a woman “can write,” she must “kill the angel in the house,” at the end of Fatal Attraction, the Angel kills the Monster. Beth Gallagher “saves her family” and resumes her position as self-sacrificing mother and wife, forgiving her cheating husband, and ridding them both of the woman who “won’t be ignored.” |
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