Ceremonial Sex or Not ?

Erin Meierbachtol

Essay # 3 (Researching topic)

I my essay I want to make clear that my over all topics is about the women in this book and how they have lost their self-worth to have any type of freedom at all.  This book has a strong portray on mid 20th Century Feminist. Women can get arrested for being married to a divorced man, and many other great things. This book is based on a Science Fiction novel that displays dystopian literature. I am not sure how much I want to learn from this it seems like an over sexed controlled society that needs help. I feel really strong about women rights and this book can go from one extreme to the next.

My biggest topic I will be discussing in this book is the lack of women right. Atwood accurately portrays these handmaids to be fundamentally modern day sex slaves. It also seem like everyone is trying to get pregnant or needs to be. This book talks about (Ceremonial Sex) acts between the commanders with the handmaids. I want to truly see what this is all about and to prove that these women had no control. For my research about my topic I will be looking into the history of sex slaves and how this book can compare.

I felt that this was a very strong and most discussed topic through the book. I want to understand more about Atwood and why she would choose such a graphic topic to write about. This is quite a different book and was hard to follow. However the theme played out strong and I want to deliver the same. So in choosing this I hope that it will bring me close to understanding Atwood work and why she decide to write a book about this futurist type of story. 

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Thesis Statement Blog

Erin Meierbachtol

Thesis Statement

Identify the weak thesis statement:

A: I’m going to write about The jeans industry targets its advertisements to apple to young adults.

B: Othello is a play about love and jealousy.

In this statement (B) is the weaker of the two thesis, it leaves no open to were the story or point may be going. Othello could be jealousy over many things and what or who, is he in loved with.

1.       The jean industry may only have one leg to stand one, getting the attention of younger buyers to help their business.

2.       This statement is weak and un-supporting to accurately what the point is to make.

A: The punk rock group Minor Threat uses emotional lyrics to appeal to their target audience, which considers itself individualistic and therefore the lyrics must convey a message of individuality.

This is more of a personal point of view than an overall type of view, this is weak an inconsiderable.

My thesis statement:

In Atwood’s book was it possible that many of their items can from the black market ?

In Margret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, the book makes a mention about buying products from the black market, such items like cigarettes. The hand maids are left to conjecture about this so called black market and maybe it offering freedom to them.  In Atwood’s book page (55) the girls are speaking about dresses “ the summer dresser are unpacked and hanging in the closet, two of them, pure cotton, which is better than synthetics like the cheaper ones, though even so, when it’s muggy, in July and August, you sweat inside them’’

I think this is a great stamen because it may be dresses that they purchased from the black market or forced to buy cheaper dresses because that’s all they can have. Either way I think it’s showing a point of how hot it can get in the summer months and like many people wearing cotton can be unbearable.

                                                                                                                                                     

Mid-Session Check In

Mid- Session Check In

Laura,


Here are my answers to the questions for the Midsession Check-in Blog.

1.       What has been your biggest challenge in this class so far? What has been your biggest success?

My biggest challenge so far has been anything to do with the video posting or Skype, for much reason. The first is one I could not get anything to work on my computer it was so frustrating the other is I like online classes so I can be incognito “laugh out loud”. I just found the assignment to be a little off kilter for an English class. My biggest success has been able to branch out, I never really wanted to read or study so much about Military before. So far I have been amazed at how well Tim O’Brien and Sean Huze work has been and I am glad I got the chance to learn their work. It’s nice that are instructor took such an approach to think outside the box, so many teacher just want you to learn the basic and not much more.

2.       How have the readings in the class affected you?

Well in accordance to my last answer I have enjoyed reading about Tim O’Brien and his amazing life. I would have never bought his book and having to read it for class has been wonderful. I m not one to branch away from the type of stories I like so given this chance I think I will keep up on it, overall I have enjoyed the readings in this class so far.

3.       How is literary analysis different from other types of writing you have done in college?

The literature in this class has been up to par for what the college standards should be. The work seems to be set at a speed that most students should be able to follow and keep up on. Is the work different from other English classes? Yes; this class wants many different assignment like creating a blog or making a video, this can either be a good thing or can become distracting to some. Again, I think the fact that or instructor asked us to go beyond just the normal routine of standard literary. So we can look at the video assignments and blog post as a way to be more creative in our literature world.

4.       What are your goals for the half of the second half of the session? What do you hope to improve or accomplish.

My goals for the second half is to get more aggressive with my work, I will be pulling out all the punches no holds bar. I want my work to be able to show how well I can focus and be more attentive. I sometimes stray off the beaten path and choose to do work a little different. However this time I will be staying focus and working hard.  My upcoming accomplish will be to pass this class, I want to pass just like everyone else and I believe that’s a great goal to set.