Feminism and Diversity: Women in science

Each of these works of literature hold a unique point of view.  As you are reading them, consider what that point of view is, and how the story would change if the point of view were from a different perspective.

• Amy Tan, well known for her novel, The Joy Luck Club, which depicts her life growing up as a Chinese-American, shares her experiences as a child piano prodigy (pages 471-480).
  • Tan, A. (2017). Two kinds. In L. Kirszner & S. Mandell (Eds.), Portable literature: Reading, reacting, writing, 9^thed (pp. 471-480). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning. (Original work published 1989)
• Emily Dickinson is a perfect example of an author who often tried to be outside of herself when writing. In “I heard a Fly buzz–when I died–,” it is obvious that the proverbial ‘fly on the wall’ who is watching the subject as she passes beyond the room (page 753).
  • Dickinson, E. (2017). I heard a fly buzz–when i died–. In L. Kirszner & S. Mandell (Eds.), Portable literature: Reading, reacting, writing, 9^thed (p. 753). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning. (Original work published 1862)
• A parent struggles with the illness of her child and the difficulties of maintaining personal relationships in this agonizing story by Lorrie Moore (pages 447-453).
• • Moore, L. (2017). Referential. In L. Kirszner & S. Mandell (Eds.), Portable literature: Reading, reacting, writing, 9^thed (pp. 447-453). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning. (Original work published 2012)
• In Joyce Carol Oates’ “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?,” the clarity of whether the antagonist is real, demonic, or a fabrication of a young girl’s mind, is all about perspective. Look for clues and you decide (pages 453-466)
  • Oates, J.C. (2017). Where are you going, where have you been? In L. Kirszner & S. Mandell (Eds.), Portable literature: Reading, reacting, writing, 9^thed (pp. 453-466). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning. (Original work published 1966)

 

Read the short stories in your Unit 7/Point of View and Perspective “readings resources”

Write a 3 or more page response in which you rewrite a section of the story from a different character’s point of view.   Your audience for this response will be people who have read the stories.

 

Sources: The short stories in the unit resource section

 Prompt (what are you writing about?):

Choose any of the short stories that you read in this unit and rewrite 3 or more pages of the story from a different character’s perspective.

 

Note: An example of this would be if you if you took part of the fairy tale, “Cinderella” and rewrote the story from the point of view of one of the stepsisters.