Respond to classmate. Do you agree with your classmate’s perspective? Why or why not? Be specific. What is the most convincing part of your classmate’s post? Why?Criteria:
- 150 words minimum for each post (excluding quotations and citations)
- Include at least one paraphrased quote from in each response to a classmate to support your ideas.
classmate’s post : response should be based on this post (In the piece “Desiree’s Baby”, Kate Chopin uses her plot to question society’s views on race and lineage, as well as to criticize both slavery and patriarchy. Chopin talks about Desiree’s experience giving birth to a black baby with the son of a slave family. This piece takes place in 1893 and symbolizes the mistreatment black people received at that time. The story begins with a visit from Desiree’s adoptive mother, who carefully studies the depth of the girl’s skin tone. At first, Desiree and her husband are naive to the correlation and live a happy life. However, as the girl reaches the age of three months, Desiree notices a change in the girl, who begins to display skin color more in line with African American descent than white, and a change in treatment. that Armand gives to her. After getting the letter from her mother and asking her husband if she should leave, “She was like a stone image; silent, white, motionless after she placed it there.” (Chopin, 1979/2017, p.445). She couldn’t believe her response to her own son’s and was heartbroken. Desiree leaves at the request of her husband to an unknown place in the woods. When Desiree asks if he should go back to his mother’s house, Armand angrily says “yes”, upon which Desiree sadly gathers the boy, and not taking anything else, wanders into the yard and into the swamp, never to return. To be seen. The story ends with Armand burning all of Desiree and the baby’s belongings in a huge bonfire. The last items he burns are her love letters, among which he finds a letter from her mother to her father, revealing her African American heritage and the hope that her son will never find out. of it. The letter reveals that the baby’s skin color is the product of his own mixed heritage and not Desiree’s. In my opinion it is as if Desiree is limited in her role in society because she is a white woman with a black baby. Back then, society expected mother and baby to resemble the same skin color. Instead of accepting her husband’s color, he lovingly takes her baby with her without hesitation, despite the difference in appearance she left without looking back. That is what a mother should do. She was a very brave woman who had no plan and believed in love above color or society’s expectations.
In the “Gender Queer: A Memoir” comic, Maia Kobabe tells the story of her childhood growing up being assigned female at birth, but Maia never conformed to gender stereotypes. She tells stories of how some days they felt more like a boy and other days more like a girl. Growing older, Ella Maia was in love with both boys and girls, and she wondered if she was bisexual. Still, Ella Maia had to keep exploring what dating, crushes, love and sex meant to them until she realized what it meant to be non-binary and asexual. They knew that this was against what society thinks: either you are a boy or a girl/you like your “opposite” sex. Since they were so insecure at such a young age, she limited her role in society. They believed that they were only “two half souls, a woman and a man.” (Kobabe, 2019, p.21) To challenge the norms of society, Maia did not allow people’s opinions to influence her decision on how they felt inside. It was the truth of her the only thing that mattered to him. Kobabe deeply shares her memories. It’s such a personal journey, filled with moments of deep connection and joy. Kobabe feels so confident in who she is and what she feels. Originally, this memoir was written to help her family understand her, and thus for those who want to understand that they are not gender binary. It also helps to understand asexuality and how it affects relationships.)
