3 posts i have to make up
1. List the privileges you share with McIntosh? What disadvantages do you experience?
I definitely have experienced the advantages of being white as McIntosh has described them. I get a better education and a better income which unfortunately seems to equate to a better quality of life, and I've been conditioned to believe that I got these because I worked for them when in reality they sort of fell into my hands. My life has seemed predestined for the upper track in school, and that cushy job in the fancy soap store on yuppy 4th street in Oakland may not have just been a product of a friendly interview. Also, I realize as I write this something very interesting, which is that I'm completely forgetting my Latina side and my working class background on my mother's side. To look at me, I'm a very stereotypical white American girl, and even without knowing it, I've used this to my advantage all my life to get the upper hand. It wasn't my fault in Elementary school that I was considered the smart, well-behaved little girl, but people's perceptions of me helped to shape my identity, and so I was stuck on the "white" track. I'm a little off topic now... in any case, I've had the privilage of being "white" my entire life, and I've also shared the disadvantage of being female in many instances, most of all having trouble being taken seriously by males many times, even ones in my same age group.
2. Evaluate how Satrapi's use of the form of the graphic novel effects how you receive her narrative or point of view?
It's more simple to be able to read a story in the form of a graphic novel, and it makes her points easier to understand and more poignant, because the simplicity adds a level of understanding that is easy to take to heart. Instead of trying to explain her complex ideas and emotions without the aid of a different medium, one gets too theoretical and often these narratives can get boring. Satrapi's method allows the reader to connect with the image of her and the emotions depicted in the cartoon.
3. Compare Satrapi's relationship with her family and nation/s to Moraga's relationship with her family and nation/s?
Both authors come from nations which try to help and save their own people and inadvertantly end up harming them more than helping in the end. In iran, by trying to make everyone live piously and by their unrealistic ideals, they end up oppressing their people instead, especially women, who get the worst of the laws and the worst punishments. In Moraga's chicano nation, by trying to keep the ideal of "family values" intact, they tear apart the family through inequality and deny the women equal rights. In both instances, the women get the brunt of the males' "values," which they might not agree with. However similar their relationships to their countries may be, Satrapi and Moraga's relationships to their families are very different. While both women are supported by their families and especially mothers very much, Satrapi's family supports her in her feminism much more than Moraga's did. Moraga's mother subscribed to the very traditional values of a male-dominated household, and made Moraga take care of her brother as if he were the crown prince. In Satrapi's family, in part because she was an only child and in part because her family was very liberal, they encouraged her to be as rebellious as possible without being dangerous.
I definitely have experienced the advantages of being white as McIntosh has described them. I get a better education and a better income which unfortunately seems to equate to a better quality of life, and I've been conditioned to believe that I got these because I worked for them when in reality they sort of fell into my hands. My life has seemed predestined for the upper track in school, and that cushy job in the fancy soap store on yuppy 4th street in Oakland may not have just been a product of a friendly interview. Also, I realize as I write this something very interesting, which is that I'm completely forgetting my Latina side and my working class background on my mother's side. To look at me, I'm a very stereotypical white American girl, and even without knowing it, I've used this to my advantage all my life to get the upper hand. It wasn't my fault in Elementary school that I was considered the smart, well-behaved little girl, but people's perceptions of me helped to shape my identity, and so I was stuck on the "white" track. I'm a little off topic now... in any case, I've had the privilage of being "white" my entire life, and I've also shared the disadvantage of being female in many instances, most of all having trouble being taken seriously by males many times, even ones in my same age group.
2. Evaluate how Satrapi's use of the form of the graphic novel effects how you receive her narrative or point of view?
It's more simple to be able to read a story in the form of a graphic novel, and it makes her points easier to understand and more poignant, because the simplicity adds a level of understanding that is easy to take to heart. Instead of trying to explain her complex ideas and emotions without the aid of a different medium, one gets too theoretical and often these narratives can get boring. Satrapi's method allows the reader to connect with the image of her and the emotions depicted in the cartoon.
3. Compare Satrapi's relationship with her family and nation/s to Moraga's relationship with her family and nation/s?
Both authors come from nations which try to help and save their own people and inadvertantly end up harming them more than helping in the end. In iran, by trying to make everyone live piously and by their unrealistic ideals, they end up oppressing their people instead, especially women, who get the worst of the laws and the worst punishments. In Moraga's chicano nation, by trying to keep the ideal of "family values" intact, they tear apart the family through inequality and deny the women equal rights. In both instances, the women get the brunt of the males' "values," which they might not agree with. However similar their relationships to their countries may be, Satrapi and Moraga's relationships to their families are very different. While both women are supported by their families and especially mothers very much, Satrapi's family supports her in her feminism much more than Moraga's did. Moraga's mother subscribed to the very traditional values of a male-dominated household, and made Moraga take care of her brother as if he were the crown prince. In Satrapi's family, in part because she was an only child and in part because her family was very liberal, they encouraged her to be as rebellious as possible without being dangerous.
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