Kayden Wisehart

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I have been in circles being viewed as a "Killjoy." I found this SUPER relatable. There needs to be a dramatic shift in society that confronting racism, sexism, or other is ruining people's comfortability.

I wonder if there is an allusion to satan with the snake?
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"I pulled my hand away and took a deep breath. If I couldn't make otjize here, then I'd have to ... change" (Okorafor 88).
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Women should be empowered by their differences that can unite them!!!
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I think the fact that Cassie accepted the proposal was a chance to start over and escape the past. Although, I think that it was ultimately just an easy way out.
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Cassie is too emotionally invested. My prediction she is going to be killed because of it.
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I wonder about the plane codes she finds, was she actually running away due to a pregnancy or because of the roommates??? #bsueng490

I predict Cassie is going to become too emotionally tied to embodying and becoming Lexi that it leads to her downfall.
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I loved the connection we talked about in class to Carrie Bradshaw as a post-feminism example. We are being distracted by what we SHOULD be doing!!!
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The pace and intensity of "The Likeness" is WAY more intriguing. I love the way that French in such a way I feel like I am unfolding the mystery with Sam, Cassie, and Frank.
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I believe he calls her these names to hold power over her and continue to make her believe that she is in need of him and his commands.
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"Sometimes I don't draw a line between my others and the brothersisters; they're all ogbanje after all, siblings to each other more than to me" (Emezi 223).
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It feels at this point Asughara and Ada seem to be becoming one and the dynamic continues to be one that is complex. I wonder if a Western perspective may see the relationship between the two as a split personality.
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"If we learn how to read these webs of power and social life, we might learn new couplings, new coalitions" (Haraway 349).
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The use of italics seems to be an interesting and intentional choice by the author. I think this creates more of an unsettling tone, "Come back, they said. Listen to us this time" (Emezi 134).
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It is devastating to hear the tradegy that is happening to the Ada repetitively, yet she believes that these actions are justified and that Asughara is shielding Ada. It seems that the more Ada tries to hold onto what could possibly ground her the ogbanje try to consume her.
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"The body is not a self-identical or merely factic materiality; it is a materiality that bears meaning" (483).
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Names and the circulation of identity becomes a reoccurring pattern within the first four chapters. Names hold great power.
(more on this in my presentation...)
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The ending seemed a bit rushed. I also wonder if anyone questioned Anna's death... it all seemed to easy of an escape.
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"Mothers, like gardeners or historians, identify virtues appropriate to their work work. But to identify a virtue is not to possess it" (Ruddick 36). Mothers wear many hats, being a mother is simply one.
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"Oh 'tis you who knows better than the girl's own physician, is it? You, who couldn't even tell a dead child from a living one?" (Donoghue 212). Journalism is not only affecting Anna but her family and the perception of the situation from an outside perspective.
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The priest seems to be personification of the church. I am interested to see how dynamic between Anna and Him further reflect the relationship between Anna and the church.
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Are the connections to religion possibly a glimpse into why Anna seems to be starving herself..
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"To become literary a house, after all, is to be denied the hope of that spiritual transcendence of the body.." (Gilbert and Gubar 119).
The idea of women being compared/transformed to domesticity enables patriarchal writings.
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"She doesn't have the terminology or any of the points of reference or any word at all that would give the slightest suggestion as to what water might be" (31-32). This reminds me of the complexity of transformation.
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I wasn't sure if I completely understood but part of me believes the inherent desire for the tiger to want her sexually could be stemming from male gaze/ male approval??

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