Instructions:
In this short essay, create your own statement of argument, with that author’s short story, as read in this class, as your focus.
Your statement should address in some way how the short story works to challenge a fundamental and perhaps limiting sense of normative reality, in order to create an ontological shift–literally a shift in how we understand what it means to be in the world.
Your essays should begin with clear arguments, should progress clearly from idea to idea and paragraph to paragraph, should include citations from the texts you discuss, *close readings* where you consider questions such as point of view, word choice, and tone, and be double-spaced, in 12-point font with 1-inch margins. 4-6pp.
Use the MLA style of citation, with a short bibliography.
Prompt:
Discuss how Carmen Maria Machado challenges normative versions of what it means to be a “good” husband, or a “good” wife, to shock the reader into a revelation about gender inequality in even a happy family.
Links Below:
PDF: The short story
PPTX: Background on the autho
