About A Girl Analysis

There has been much discussion about transgender adults in recent years but lately there has been a shift to the discussion of transgender children. Growing Up Coy (2016) is a documentary about a 6-year-old transgender. The documentary follows Coy and her family through a time where Coy’s parents fight for her rights as a transgender individual. This film discusses childhood gender-variant behavior, discrimination and prejudice, and proposes many questions about one’s opinions of being transgender, gender identity, etc.

What if you had a child who was experiencing gender dysphoria? A child who didn’t feel that they were comfortable being the gender that they were born into? What would you do if your child wanted to become the opposite gender? In the documentary “Growing up Trans” (TV Episode 2015) Children who are experiencing gender dysphoria tell their stories about what it’s like growing up transgender. The documentary offers insight on the issues and complications the children and their parents face while transitioning.

The Lost Girl is a beautiful, humble picture story book created by Ambelin Kwaymullina and illustrated by Leanne Tobin. Kwaymullina, the author, is from the Palyku people for the Pilbar region of Western Australia and is an Aboriginal legal academic. Tobin is a decentant of the Dharug, the traditional Aboriginal people of Greater Western Sydney (Kitson, 2014). Both creators have actively employed their prior knowledge, values, beliefs and culture to put together this engaging and informative picture story book, perfect for young children. Tobin uses vivid colours to represent the red sandy appearance of the Australian dessert outback and the native flora, in an effort to craft a naturistic melody. Kwaymullina writes of sequenced events

In the short story “Girl”, by Jamaica Kincaid is told from the perspective of two different people. There is a bonding relationship that is happening between the two people in this short story. The mother seems to be the main character in this essay uses a very strict tone to her daughter. The daughter is being told about how to do things in her life the correct way. The daughter barely speaks during this essay, she is doing more analyzing than arguing with her mother. When the mother gives the daughter advise she was trying to give her words of wisdom. But, at the same time, some of the ideas the mother gave to her child was offensive like “slut”. The mother has different perspectives throughout this essay with a lot of different

Self reflexive writing is a method used by authors where they write about writing. It is often an abstract concept, and the way that David Arnason uses it in his narrative “A Girl’s Story” adds a unique perception to the story. Throughout the story it is made clear that, at times, things may be entirely different than they appear to be at first glance, and how, in general, meanings are not absolute. The piece of writing “A Girl’s Story” is a story about a writer, writing a story about a girl who is having problems with her fiancé as she feels unfulfilled. It is supposed to be a somewhat cliché short story, as the writer even acknowledges that himself. He does this by stating why he made various decisions when constructing the main character such

“He was dead. Ribs all smashed. No question of that.” This proves that Lob risked his life for his true love, Sandy.” Joan Aiken, the author of “Lob’s Girl,” uses story events to emphasize the bond between Lob, a german shepherd, and Sandy Pengelly, a girl that lives in Cornwall, United Kingdom. As said before, Lob is an adorable german shepherd that meets a girl named Sandy Pengelly on a beach. It was love at first sight. Some evidence supporting how the author uses story events to emphasize the bond between Lob and Sandy is that Lob is Sandy’s dog, he wakes her up from a coma, and risks his life for Sandy. All these actions are reasons how the bond between Lob and Sandy is unbreakable.

In Jamaica Kincaid’s short story “Girl,” the narration of a mother lecturing her daughter with sharp, commanding diction and unusual syntax, both affect the evolution of a scornful tone, that her daughter’s behavior will eventually lead her to a life of promiscuity that will affect the way people perceive her and respect her within her social circle. As well as the fact that it emphasizes expectations for young women to conform to a certain feminine ideal of domesticity as a social norm during this time and the danger of female sexuality.

In both stories “Girl” and “Story of an hour” there is use of gender that describes a typically unfair direction of the role of a women, yet the use of gender is describe differently. The use of gender in the “Story of an hour” is mainly about how the wife of a husband who dies in the train crash is going to deal with life without her husband and if she will be able to handle it emotionally. While the story “Girl” deals with a mom that tells her daughter to be well mannered fit in socially with society. The role of women in both stories is to be well mannered and considerate with high standards of behavior. For instance, in the story the women tell the daughter “ on Sunday try to a walk like a lady” (123). A lady is what the mom wants her to become because she is afraid of her becoming unfit for society. Ladies are expected to be very polite and speak in good manners in order to fit the ideal women. In the “Story of an Hour” there is a specific way her family wants her to handle her husband death. The facts Mrs. Malland was told about the tragedy at a certain times makes me believe that writer wants us to believe that women have harder time dealing with her marriage life.

In the reading of “Amusing the Million” by John F. Kasson and “Where the Girls Are” by Susan J. Douglas we see both writers arguing major changes in society. In amusing the million it tells the story of Coney islands impact on society and various ways it changed it. In where the girls are it tells the story of the many changes of women roles and how mass media was the reasoning behind it. In where the girls are by Douglas, Douglas argues the way mass media portrayed woman at various times throughout America.

For centuries, women have had the role of being the perfect and typical house wife; needs to stay home and watch the children, cook for husbands, tend to the laundry and chores around the house. In her short story “Girl”, Jamaica Kincaid provides a long one sentence short story about a mother giving specific instructions to her daughter but with one question towards the end, with the daughter’s mother telling her daughter if she had done all the instructions to become a so called “perfect” woman, every man would want her. Kincaid’s structuring in “Girl,” captures a demanding and commanding tone. This short story relates to feminist perspectives. The mother expects a great deal from her daughter to have a certain potential and she does not hesitate to let her daughter understand that. As a matter of fact, the story is about two pages long, made into one long sentence - almost the whole time the mother is giving her daughter directions to follow - conveys a message to the reader that the mother demands and expects great potential in her daughter. The daughter is forced to listen and learn from what her mother is telling her to do to become the perfect housewife. Throughout the story, Kincaid uses the symbols of the house and clothing, benna and food to represent the meanings of becoming a young girl to a woman and being treated like one in society. Women are portrayed to appeal to a man to become the ideal woman in society, while men can do anything they please.

Olds organizes three patterns of imagery that emphasizes the speaker’s acknowledgement of her daughters upcoming maturity. The speaker takes the young girl to a swimming party where boys instantly enclose the young woman. The speaker sees the young people dive into the pool and imagines her daughter working math problems in her head to calculate her relationship to the diving board and the gallons of water in the pool. The speaker knows that as the girl looks at the boys, she will be recognizing the attractiveness of their manhood. Within Sharon Olds, “The One Girl at The Boys Party”, mathematical imagery is used to convey a mother’s observation of her daughters’ abrupt transition into womanhood.

There are many different reasons why the poem “Girl,” and the poem “If,” are very different and there are some reasons why they are the same. Unlike the poem If, Girl talks about most of the stuff a girl has to do in order to be a pretty young woman and not a wharf-rat boy like she is right now. If, talks about what everyone needs to do to be a young man or a young woman unlike girl where it just talks about what a girl has to do to be a young woman and for the baker to let her smell and touch the bread in the bakery before they buy the bread. They are both the same because they talk about how a woman needs to act to be a young woman not all sloppy and a wharf-rat boy.

In the story Girl, The author Jamaica Kincaid uses point if view to show how the mother teaches her daughter how to be the proper or perfect woman for a man. She also uses” This is how”shows how the mother teaches the daughter how to be sophisticated.

Depictions of real world tragedies and struggles hit the cinemas all the time but none compete with the murder mystery, The Girl on the Train. In the movie, audiences are captivated to watch a web of lies unravel until the spider is found. A longing for love, troubles with alcohol, endless hours of back and forth, and a malicious man plague the protagonist, Rachel Watson (Emily Blunt), as she tries to solve the puzzling mystery that surrounds the disappearance of Megan Hipwell (Haley Bennett). The Girl On the Train is an astounding film that shows how cinematic facades can reflect true tragedies and struggles that haunt people in their everyday lives.

In the book, The Good Girl, by Mary Kubica, one of the main characters, Colin Thatcher, shows a two very distinct personalities in the book. He changes throughout the book due to connections with others.