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1.a List the privileges you share with McIntosh? What disadvantages do you experience?
Honestly, I can say I get no privileges, simply because I am not white, but I can say however that I do receive them, on the fact that all the people I know and face every do not look at me for the color, nor attitude i hold towards others, and judge. I am blessed to be in a world where I can and am treated like everyone else. I have the same advantages as anyone who is reading this, and I have the same disadvantages as anyone who is reading this. I always came across the idea that to be white meant to have lots of money, friends, valuable items, be important, and most of all, completely free from worry and anything else that gets in the way of enjoying life to the max. To me that is what "white" means. So while looking at the idea of having privileges resting on the case of "whiteness" with the idea I hold, it would appear that no one, and I mean absolutely no one, is "white", thus no one has privileges, we all earn them, whether my working 24/7 for them, or mooching off others, whatever the case be, we have to work for them.
1.b Evaluate how Satrapi's use of the form of the graphic novel effects how you receive her narrative or point of view?
The graphic outline she gives us is a form of her identity. She presents herself in such a way that both the reader and the writer are familiar with the text's presentation. She chose to give us glimpse of her life in a way both not to scare us off, and at the same time, keeping us attached to the book. She recreates her life's struggles into a cartoon, and she becomes a cartoon character, meaning she is now able to cope with the fact that she lived through such horrible times, and at the same time, she wants people to recognize that she is real, both here, and in the book. If you would like to read more, pick up me essay that I wrote on her, its titled, The Identity of Caricatures.
1.c Compare Satrapi's relationship with her family and nation/s to Moraga's relationship with her family and nation/s?
This, as simple as it may seem, is quite hard. First off, Moraga's life can’t even come close to compare to what Satrapi went through. One is born in a country where you are most likely to die at the age of 15 and the other is born in a country where life is great! Moraga's life is the average life that quite a few people, not many, face. She is lesbian Latina, who is born with rules where men control and she is just supposed to cooks, typical for most right?, well maybe not the lesbian part, but you get the idea. Satrapi and the other hand, born into a family where politics decide the next day, bombs drop left and right, and there is no room for throwing hissy-fits. Now, you tell me if they "can compare". Asking such a question is like saying which one is better, drinking water or drinking poison? All in all, I cannot say who has it easy or hard, but I can say this, one of them had to fight to live, the other fought while alive.
Honestly, I can say I get no privileges, simply because I am not white, but I can say however that I do receive them, on the fact that all the people I know and face every do not look at me for the color, nor attitude i hold towards others, and judge. I am blessed to be in a world where I can and am treated like everyone else. I have the same advantages as anyone who is reading this, and I have the same disadvantages as anyone who is reading this. I always came across the idea that to be white meant to have lots of money, friends, valuable items, be important, and most of all, completely free from worry and anything else that gets in the way of enjoying life to the max. To me that is what "white" means. So while looking at the idea of having privileges resting on the case of "whiteness" with the idea I hold, it would appear that no one, and I mean absolutely no one, is "white", thus no one has privileges, we all earn them, whether my working 24/7 for them, or mooching off others, whatever the case be, we have to work for them.
1.b Evaluate how Satrapi's use of the form of the graphic novel effects how you receive her narrative or point of view?
The graphic outline she gives us is a form of her identity. She presents herself in such a way that both the reader and the writer are familiar with the text's presentation. She chose to give us glimpse of her life in a way both not to scare us off, and at the same time, keeping us attached to the book. She recreates her life's struggles into a cartoon, and she becomes a cartoon character, meaning she is now able to cope with the fact that she lived through such horrible times, and at the same time, she wants people to recognize that she is real, both here, and in the book. If you would like to read more, pick up me essay that I wrote on her, its titled, The Identity of Caricatures.
1.c Compare Satrapi's relationship with her family and nation/s to Moraga's relationship with her family and nation/s?
This, as simple as it may seem, is quite hard. First off, Moraga's life can’t even come close to compare to what Satrapi went through. One is born in a country where you are most likely to die at the age of 15 and the other is born in a country where life is great! Moraga's life is the average life that quite a few people, not many, face. She is lesbian Latina, who is born with rules where men control and she is just supposed to cooks, typical for most right?, well maybe not the lesbian part, but you get the idea. Satrapi and the other hand, born into a family where politics decide the next day, bombs drop left and right, and there is no room for throwing hissy-fits. Now, you tell me if they "can compare". Asking such a question is like saying which one is better, drinking water or drinking poison? All in all, I cannot say who has it easy or hard, but I can say this, one of them had to fight to live, the other fought while alive.
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