From a piece of fiction (short story, section of novel, or a play) choose a female character on whom to focus, and create a project that discusses some of the following questions:
What is the author’s attitude towards her? (how can you tell?)
What is your attitude towards her?
How do (at least 2) other characters view her?
How does she view herself?
I think that this is a very good prompt for the work that I plan on doing my project on; The Californians. I am planning on discussing how both characters, Magdalena and Helena are viewed in this story, as well as how they view themselves. I found it interesting that both characters are females and come from money, yet they both view themselves very differently. They are two wildly different types of girls, and I think they compliment each other very well in this story. I will be using what the authors writes about the two girls, what characters act like toward them, and my feelings toward them both as well as what they think of themselves. The author says a lot about both of them, so I will have plenty of material there. There is also a lot of writing done describing how other characters feel about them, like the police officer that arrested them, and the police chief that let them go, as well as Magdalena's father, who I found to be an interesting character. I will use all of this information to discuss how this work of fiction shows what the treatment of women was like in the late 1800's-early 1900's. This was obviously not amazing point in time for women, and the fact that it is basically only 100 years ago is crazy. I will also be discussing how the author's (Gertrude Atherton) experiences have influenced her writing and views on the treatment of women during this time period. I really enjoyed reading this story, and I am really looking forward to diving a lot deeper into these two characters as well as the author and see what this text shows us about the treatment of women during this time period.
Hey Anthony, good start to your project! I didn't see a link to it in our project directory, you may want to double check with Ms. H to see if she can make it available to the class. I used this prompt for project 1 and with what you talked about here I think you are on the right track. When you mention, "This was obviously not amazing point in time for women...," in your project, can you explain why? I look forward to reading your project if I can ever find the link!
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