Final girl

The title of the story is So I Ain’t No Good Girl. The girl (the main character) is at a bus stop while saying mean things about other girls because they are too plain and pitiful. Her boyfriend, Raheem, comes and wants him back after a redhead girl tries to steal him. He keeps fighting the main character and looking at other girls. So they get on the bus except for Raheem and the girl he’s been hitting on. On the bus, the girl decides to leave that alone and just go to school. In my…

In Karen Russell’s fictional book, “St. Lucy’s Home For Girls Raised by Wolves”, she tells the story of how werewolf girls are taught how to adapt to be more human-like. Claudette has truly conformed into the human ways the nuns at St. Lucy’s have taught her. The passage tells the struggles and accomplishments that Claudette faces and that how the rules will make her more human. Within the first three epigraphs, Claudette faces many struggles of lycanthropic culture shock in her educational…

the key characters, Lengel, Sammy, and the girls, are fighting for the most power. At first the hierarchy is not all that obvious but under closer inspection a clear structure of empowerment rises. Power and the illusion of power are prevalent themes in John Updike’s “A&P. ” Only the girls possess qualities of true power in this slightly cringe-worthy narrative. While most people would claim that Lengel holds the most power, Queenie and the other girls have the most real(substantial,…

in her poem “Barbie Doll”. The poem tells the story of a young girl going through puberty. As she grows, her classmates begin to be rude to her and criticize her looks, particularly her nose and thighs. The girl tries desperately to fit in by changing her looks and it wasn’t enough. Eventually the girl cuts off her nose and legs and offers them up to her peers. This results in her classmates finally being happy with how the young girl looks. In Marge Piercy’s poem “Barbie Doll” she demonstrates…

I, although looking like a normal person, now had skin stronger than anything in this realm, or the next. Bheithir took his final swing, crashing into the sandy ground of the arena. I simply hopped on his scorched arm and cut off his hand. The blade slipped through the solid rock like a knife through a warmed piece of butter. Bheithir screeched, but allowed Alaena to run…

motherhood and the women’s domestic sphere. In order to contextualize this change in educational standards, I plan to draw brief examples from the 17th, but mostly the 18th century, regarding what subjects and methods of teaching were to be expected for girls that were allowed to attend school. In addition, should space allow, I’d like to also highlight some key women who helped to further the educational reformation, or more generally how female teachers and schoolmistresses did just that.…

asking a popular girl out onto a date. The example is small but shows that the nerdy, nervous teenage boy was willing to risk his pride…

But the cinema of the body implies also a social gest. We see this in how people react to the monk: sometimes with indifference, but other times they stare, try to interact with him, see him as a performer. We are not the only seers in the film, the people in it are voyeurs of something they do and see everyday (walking), but the fact that the monk’s walking is at a different temporality breaks the sensory motor link and affects us: makes us think the unthought. The ceremonialization of the body…

that not far yet not truly near the beach. Working in the A&P is a young man in his nineteens named Sammy. Sammy works the cash register and tells the story of three young girls that walk through the store. Sammy character shows that he is a man, liberal and recklessly brave. In the first place as soon as the three young girls walk in Sammy notices…

Karen Russell’s “St Lucy’s Home for Girl Raised by Wolves” is a short story about a pack of wolf-girls going through five stages of development. Specifically the character, Claudette. As she develops a human-like identity, it appears that she starts to relate to all five stages, and loses her wolf-like identity as this happens The first stage of lycanthropic culture shock states that the girls will find everything new and exciting. During this stage, Claudette starts out with a wolf-like…