Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Response: Two Or Three Things I Know For Sure
While not entirely similar, reading this story made me think back to Camille's untitled work. It was that similar sense of disappointment in the men in their lives, although they do have distinct differences. They both have a sense of growing up with that disappointment, and learning to live with it, even if they can't accept it.They do have those fundamental differences. Where Camille expresses this outright inability to accept what she's grown up with, Allison has a more subvert way of doing the same thing. She acts as though she can accept it, much as Camille does to her mother, and then at the end, she prays and hopes that she won't end up like her family. Even she has a hard time accepting it, and it's such a vulnerable thing to explore and put out there that they end up feeling very similar in that aspect.
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I enjoyed your mention of disappointment with men in their lives because in the Allison piece I found myself not focusing on that. First I had observed the Allison piece to be about her misconstrued examples of womanhood and what it means to be a woman. Now that you bring it up though, I do see the covert disappointment with men coming through and I guess I must have just ignored that when I read it the first time. I like that you compared this to Camille's essay because I probably would have compared it to Anessa's. Although I do see some of the similarities that you pointed out. I really just enjoyed that the subject matter can be so similar, yet dealt with so differently and conveyed so differently. It really has the ability to personalize emotional responses to very similar issues.
ReplyDeleteGood response and conversation here. I'd love to see some language from both and a little context that will help a potential reader get some bearings.
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