American novelist, Bernard cooper, in his essay, “Burial's”, incorporates the theme of sexual identity. Cooper’s purpose is to discuss the border between the sexes. He adopts a confused idiomatic tone in order to blur the border between sexes in his audience.
Cooper starts off his essay by expressing that people should be recognised for what they want to be by describing people by the way they dressed and acted. He begins by addressing that these women were not actually woman by stating “What’s Wrong With This Picture?” pointing out that these people were not average woman. But later describes that he “could get a glimpse of maleness” But respectfully calls the men a “she” & “her” identifying them for who they want to be identified as. Stating that “Any woman might be a man”. These statements set a verbal role model. A stealthy way of showing respect to people of different sex.
Cooper expresses that people should be identified for who they are by stealthly calling two men who were dressed as a woman she and her after getting a “glimpse of makeness”. …show more content…
“I was drawn toward girlish things- dolls and jump rope and jewelry-- as well as to games and preoccupations that were expected of a boy” With this statement, cooper admits to loving things that identifies as un-boy like, but also loves things that are boy like. He didn’t see a problem with liking items from both sexes. He earlier described the border between the sexes to be a haze, identifying it as a boarder that just barely exists. “I once thought it possible to divide the world into male and female columns. Blue/pink. Rooster/Hens. Trousers/Skirts” The world is not just two colors blue and pink. There are a variety of people who persevere in what they love. Bernard uses these stereotypes that he used to believe to connect with his audience who believe in just two sexes to sway their
Cooper starts off his essay by expressing that people should be recognised for what they want to be by describing people by the way they dressed and acted. He begins by addressing that these women were not actually woman by stating “What’s Wrong With This Picture?” pointing out that these people were not average woman. But later describes that he “could get a glimpse of maleness” But respectfully calls the men a “she” & “her” identifying them for who they want to be identified as. Stating that “Any woman might be a man”. These statements set a verbal role model. A stealthy way of showing respect to people of different sex.
Cooper expresses that people should be identified for who they are by stealthly calling two men who were dressed as a woman she and her after getting a “glimpse of makeness”. …show more content…
“I was drawn toward girlish things- dolls and jump rope and jewelry-- as well as to games and preoccupations that were expected of a boy” With this statement, cooper admits to loving things that identifies as un-boy like, but also loves things that are boy like. He didn’t see a problem with liking items from both sexes. He earlier described the border between the sexes to be a haze, identifying it as a boarder that just barely exists. “I once thought it possible to divide the world into male and female columns. Blue/pink. Rooster/Hens. Trousers/Skirts” The world is not just two colors blue and pink. There are a variety of people who persevere in what they love. Bernard uses these stereotypes that he used to believe to connect with his audience who believe in just two sexes to sway their