MLA formatted paper, 1000 words (about 3 pages) on how the details of either “Help” or “A Big True” or “Mermaid River” lead to the larger ideas of the story and relation to intersectionality.
When we reflect on a story, we can ask “What is this story about?” and come up with a plot summary and a general theme. But when we ask, “What is this story really about?” we begin to interpret and extrapolate the larger ideas. All quarter we’ve been looking at those larger ideas in terms of ethnic relations, family structure, gender, and sexual identity, class and ethnic identity, struggles against racism, etc. And we’ve looked at the details of the stories.
This week, you’ll be doing an extended analysis of just one story, “Help” or “Mermaid River” or “A Big True.” They are contemporary immigrant stories and deal with cultural clashes, relations between parent and child, friendships between people of different cultures, economic conflict, etc.
In the essay, you’ll explain the larger ideas behind the story, especially some themes presented in this class, and how the story leads the reader to think about them. You will illustrate your points with precise examples of passages from the stories. As you’ve done within the Discussions, Illustrate your points with examples of the setting, the characters, and their interaction, anchors, dialogue, central conflict, etc. Quote only relevant details and lines. paragraphs should be only 1/5 quoted material.
Here are some of the larger ideas to look at. Be sure to include intersectionality.
Acculturation is one of several forms of cultural contact and has a couple of closely related terms, including assimilation and amalgamation. Although all three of these words refer to changes due to contact between different cultures, there are notable differences between them.
Acculturation is often tied to political conquest or expansion and is applied to the process of change in beliefs or traditional practices that occurs when the cultural system of one group displaces that of another.
Assimilation refers to the process through which individuals and groups of differing heritages acquire the basic habits, attitudes, and mode of life of another, usually surrounding or dominant, culture.
Amalgamation refers to a blending of cultures, rather than one group eliminating another (acculturation) or one group mixing itself into another (assimilation).
Intersectionality refers to the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, ethnicity, religion, gender, etc as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage.
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