Read an excerpt from another group's independent read.
Write a blog here with the following format:
1. Include your name,
2. The title of the novel, and the name of the person's excerpt you are responding to.
3. What is the tone of the excerpt you have read? Be precise. See tone words below.
4. Compare and contrast the excerpt with what your independent read. Focus on subject matter, methods of research, ways of persuasion, causes, effects, etc...
Positive Tone/Attitude Words
Amiable
Amused
Appreciative
Authoritative
Benevolent
Brave
Calm
Cheerful
Cheery
Compassionate
Complimentary
Confident
Negative Tone/Attitude Words
Accusing
Aggravated
Agitated
Angry
Apathetic
Arrogant
Artificial
Audacious
Belligerent
Bitter
Boring
Brash
Childish
Humor-Irony-Sarcasm Tone/Attitude Words
Amused
Bantering
Bitter
Caustic
Comical
Condescending
Contemptuous
Critical
Cynical
Disdainful
Consoling
Content
Dreamy
Ecstatic
Elated
Elevated
Encouraging
Energetic
Enthusiastic
Excited
Exuberant
Fanciful
Friendly
Happy
Hopeful
Impassioned
Jovial
Joyful
Jubilant
Lighthearted
Loving
Optimistic
Passionate
Peaceful
Playful
Pleasant
Proud
Relaxed
Reverent
Romantic
Soothing
Surprised
Sweet
Sympathetic
Vibrant
Whimsical
Choleric
Coarse
Cold
Condemnatory
Condescending
Contradictory
Critical
Desperate
Disappointed
Disgruntled
Disgusted
Disinterested
Facetious
Furious
Harsh
Haughty
Hateful
Hurtful
Indignant
Inflammatory
Insulting
Irritated
Manipulative
Obnoxious
Outraged
Passive
Quarrelsome
Shameful
Smooth
Snooty
Superficial
Surly
Testy
Threatening
Tired
Uninterested
Wrathful
Droll
Facetious
Flippant
Giddy
Humorous
Insolent
Ironic
Irreverent
Joking
Malicious
Mock-heroic
Mocking
Mock-serious
Patronizing
Pompous
Quizzical
Ribald
Ridiculing
Sad
Sarcastic
Sardonic
Satiric
Scornful
Sharp
Silly
Taunting
Teasing
Whimsical
Wry
Sorrow-Fear-Worry Tone/Attitude Words
Aggravated
Agitated
Anxious
Apologetic
Apprehensive
Concerned
Confused
Dejected
Depressed
Despairing
Disturbed
Neutral Tone/Attitude Words
Admonitory
Allusive
Apathetic
Authoritative
Baffled
Callous
Candid
Ceremonial
Clinical
Consoling
Contemplative
Conventional
Detached
Didactic
Disbelieving
Embarrassed
Fearful
Foreboding
Gloomy
Grave
Hollow
Hopeless
Horrific
Horror
Melancholy
Miserable
Morose
Mournful
Nervous
Numb
Ominous
Paranoid
Pessimistic
Pitiful
Poignant
Regretful
Remorseful
Resigned
Sad
Serious
Sober
Solemn
Somber
Staid
Upset
Dramatic
Earnest
Expectant
Factual
Fervent
Formal
Forthright
Frivolous
Haughty
Histrionic
Humble
Incredulous
Informative
Inquisitive
Instructive
Intimae
Judgmental
Learned
Loud
Lyrical
Matter-of-fact
Meditative
Nostalgic
Objective
Obsequious
Patriotic
Persuasive
Pleading
Pretentious
Provocative
Questioning
Reflective
Reminiscent
Resigned
Restrained
Seductive
Sentimental
Serious
Shocking
Sincere
Unemotional
Urgent
Vexed
Wistful
Zealous
Caroline Snyder
ReplyDeleteBook: Odd Girl Out Person’s Excerpt: Melissa Gahungu
"As they try fiercely to be nice and stay in perfect relationships, girls are forced into a game of tug-of-war with their own aggression. At times girls' anger may break the surface of their niceness, while at others it may only linger below it, sending confusing messages to their peers. As a result, friends are often forced to second-guess themselves and each other. Over time, many grow to mistrust what others are feeling.
The sequestering of anger not only alters the forms in which aggression is expressed, but also how it is perceived. Anger may flash on and off with lightning speed, making the victim question what happened- or indeed whether anything happened at all. Did she just look at her when I said that? Was she joking? Did she roll her eyes? Not save the seat on purpose? Lie about her plans? Tell me that she'd invited me when she hadn't"
I think the tone is concerned, even pitying. The author uses words like “forced”, “confusing,”, “mistrust”, and “victim” to make the readers feel sorry for these girls.
The tone is sort of similar to my independent read, Hurt, in that the author is trying to make the reader pity teenagers. They use the same method of persuasion: telling the reader something about teenagers without giving much, if any, statistic proof. The main difference between the two is this excerpt seems to focus on the typical teenage girl, while the book Hurt focuses on a group of teenagers that seem to have been abandoned by all adults.
Raychel Ruiz
ReplyDeleteReviving Ophelia Excerpt by: Lina Yoo
An analysis of the culture cannot ignore individual differences in women. Some women blossom and grow under the most hostile conditions while others wither after the smallest storms. And yet we are more alike than different in the issues that face us. The important question is, under what conditions do most young women flower and grow?
Adolescent clients intrigue me as they struggle to sort themselves out. But I wouldn’t have written this book had it not been for these last few years when my office had been filled with girls – girls with eating disorders, alcohol problems, posttraumatic stress reactions to sexual or physical assaults, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), self-inflicted injuries and strange phobias, and girls who have tried to kill themselves or run away. A health department survey showed that 40 percent of all girls in my Midwestern city considered suicide last year. The Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta reports that the suicide rate among children age ten to fourteen rose 75 percent between 1979 and 1988. Something dramatic is happening to adolescent girls in America, something unnoticed by those not on the front lines.
The tone is kind of dark, but also informative. The author goes into the dark issues that these girls go through, but she also gives statistics about these events. My book Queen Bees and Wannabees differs because it doesn't go into those details with girls. My author keeps her novel on a more basic level when it comes to girl's problems, but by reading this excerpt I can tell that the author digs deeper into the darker lives of girls that people don't typically notice.
Allison Gibson
ReplyDeleteMonica:
Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls
“The desire for connection propels children into friendship, while the need for recognition and power ignites competition and conflict. My point is that if all children desire these things, will come to them, and into learning how to acquire them, on the culture’s terms, that is, by the rules of how girls and boys are supposed to behave.
When I began this journey three years ago, I wanted to write so that other bullied girls would know they were not alone. As I spent more and more time with the girls, I realized I was also writing to know that I was not alone. I would so discover that the bullying I endured in third grade was only the tip of the iceberg. I discovered that I harbored pain and confusion over many relationships in my childhood.
Around the circles of girls I met with, I could see I wasn’t the only one who felt this way. The knowledge that we shared similar memories and feelings, that someone else understood what we had previously held inside, was amazing. The relief was palpable, and it opened unexpected doors that we were able to enter together. If we began the journey at the memory of bullying, we ended up asking and answering, more questions about the culture we live in, about how girls treat each other, and even about ourselves than we had ever thought to imagine alone” (9).
The tone of this passage is sort of informing and it is almost as if the author felt alone and fearful at the time but learned to over come those stepping stones in her life. It is also reflective on how the way girls act around that age and has a sort of warm hearted feel to it. She uses the words "power ignites", "endured" and "harbored pain" to also show a sense of solemness.
The tone of this passage is much alike the way the book I'm reading, Queen Bees and Wanna Bees, because the author is also trying to show that you are not the only person who is going through these difficult times and it's okay to feel the way you do. They use the same way of showing this through personal life experinces.
1. Lina Mafi
ReplyDelete2. Niki Thomason
Queen Bees & Wannabees
"I have been asked this question countless times by people who have already made up their mind about the answer. It's as if parents think there's something in the water that's making girls nastier. You may not like my answer. It's not in the water, it's in the mirror. Parents are buying into a culture that believes it's "cute" to buy trendy, sexy clothes or funny that an eight-year old can lypsync the latest Britney Spears or Katy Perry song. So funny that the adults then put it on youtube for everyone to see. It has become a custom for moms and their prepubscent daughters to get manicure and pedicures. When i was growing up, I went to the salon with my mom and it was a bonding experience-as i watched her get her hair done. But having a good time with her didn't depend on getting to do the same thing she did.
So it's not that girls are getting pushed to be meaner. It's that they are being pushed to be older (as opposed to more mature, which would lend itself to increased sense of responsibility, ect.) Being mean is just a by-product. Adults are the ones who create and give young girls access to content that assumes they are already teens, or want to be. Cartoons are based on reality shows that depict girls as superficial and catty; toys and websites teacg them to be famous and "celebrities" with all the accompanying clothes, jewelery, clothes, and entitled spoiled attitudes"(56).
3. The tone is condescending on the way that parents force their kids to grow up more than they need to be.
4. This is different than Reviving Ophelia because in Reviving Ophelia, she seems unhappy with the way that the world treats girls, but in Queen Bees and Wannabees, it seems like she's more accusatory towards specifically the parents. Ophelia recognizes that it is more culture's wrongdoing than parents, while QB&WB takes a different and more vivacious approach on the injustice done to girls.
Monika Narula
ReplyDeleteBook: Queen Bees and Wannabees
Person's excerpt: Haley Gardner
“Music is and always has been powerful, and never more so than during the teen years. Think about the music that brings back your strongest memories-isn’t it from when you were young? When I was a teen, I loved Depeche Mode (in fact I still do). One of my favorite albums was Violators. If you don’t know every word for it that the whole thing is about a guy having a hypnotic control over a girl. It was pretty much as if Edward Cullen in Twilight joined a rock group and sang to me. And for those of you who love the classics, your music isn’t off the hook either.…Music means something to us because it touches the most profound aspect of our lives. Loves, lust, jealousy, alienation, confusion, anger, loneliness, insecurity: it’s all there. And, more often than not, the times we feel these emotions the most strongly occur when we’re teens” (46).
The tone of the excerpt is appreciative and complimentary towards music because it consists of all the feelings and emotions one feels during his/her teenager years.
This is different than Reviving Ophelia because in Reviving Ophelia, the author blames American culture affecting teenagers and their adolescence. In this excerpt, however, the author is saying that music, a part of American culture, in a way helps teenagers get through their phases of different emotions.
1.Lisa Fast
ReplyDelete2.Passage of: Monika Narula.
Book: Reviving Ophelia
"Girls have long been trained to be feminine at considerable cost to their humanity. They have long been evaluated on the basis of appearance and caught in myriad double binds: achieve, but not too much; be polite, but be yourself; be feminine and adult; be aware of our cultural heritage, but don't comment on the sexism. Another way to describe this femininity training is to call it false self-training. Girls are trained to be less than whom they really are. They are trained to be what the culture wants of its young women, not what they themselves want to become.
America today is a girl-destroying place. Everywhere girls are encouraged to sacrifice their true selves. Their parents may fight to protect them, but their parents have limited power. Many girls lose contact with their true selves, and when they do, they become extraordinarily vulnerable to a culture that is all to happy to use them for its purposes" (Pipher 44).
3.The tone of the passage is accusing of girls. The author accuses girls of being less then they can because they try to hard to fit in. The author is also concerned and disturbed that America is destroying girls by limiting their power or being told to change them.
4. Both authors critique the way girls look at themselves and the world. They both emphasize the extremes girls will go to in order to fit it. In addition, the two authors exaggerate the girl vs. society problems at times. However, my author uses experiences and specific situations to state her opinion on society and girls today. The author of Reviving Ophelia seems like she is more general but more powerful and realistic.
1. Savannah Moody
ReplyDelete2.Allison Woyshner
Queen Bees and Wannabes
3. The tone of this passage is concerned. The author is showing the mothers concern of her daughter drifting away into something new, but not necessarily good.
4.This book relates to Odd Girl Out because they both describe girls growing up and changing. They explore coming of age events and decisions that girls make. In Odd Girl Out, the author gets to the point she is trying to make rather than have the reader interpret the meaning of a short story, unlike Queen Bees and Wannabes. Odd Girl Out analyzes the aggression in girls rather than how they change and grow up.
1.Chris Doyle
ReplyDelete2.Jai Chopra/ Freeks, Geeks and Cool Kids
3.The most apt word that would describe this passage is a combination of cynicism and facetiousness, although the author is trying to be serious. The two metaphors the author uses are a factory and a shopping mall compared to a school. The cynicism of a factory manifests itself through the notion of grueling labor that saps the life from you. The mall, although humorously appropriate, connotes the facetiousness mixed with disturbing seriousness, as a mall is not a place of serious knowledge. But the mall also connotes the unprecedented apotheosis of material possessions, the incredible lust and center around want rather than need.
4. While my book, Hurt, focuses on the family to start and the venerable unraveling of it, this passage focuses on the environment, specifically school. Hurt says the change in societal status of women, along with a social turmoil, has uprooted the firm and effective secure-man-working-while-the-mom-tends-the-children method.
This book talks about the nature of school and what it offers, how it is the choice of the teen whether or not to include themselves in the learning process
"Obviously, a crucial difference between a factory and a school is the nature of the raw material. Wood, coal, and ore have no 'mind of their own'; they do not actively resist being transformed; students often do. Consequently, if the mix of students admitted to school is more variable, and if the content of the education remains the same for everyone, we can predict with confidence that resistance will increase. Since coercive means of suppressing reistance have been banned or significantly resticted, schools have had to find other remedies for maintaining order. In part, they have done this by expanding the variety of options available to students-attempting to have something of interest for everyone. If schools have similarities with factories, increasingly they also resemble shopping malls. This was the thesis of Arthur G. Powell and this coleagues in an influential book entitled "The Shopping Mall High School". Modern high schools have significantly increased in size (though these trends are more complex) and in the array of courses and services they provide. In addition to the wide variety of non-academic activities are available: sports teams, computer clubs, debate teams, drama, dance and singing groups, drill teams, cheerleading, editing school newspapers and yearbooks- and more. The service curiculum includes counselors who advise about course selection and college admissions, and nurses who provide medical services. Special programs are offered for students who are pregnant, have young children, are abused by parents, or are addicted to drugs- to mention only a few of the services offered. Because of the wide array of courses, activities, and services offered, 'choice' becomes central to adolescents. They must decide what selection and combination of these alternatives will recieve their time, and perhaps, their attention. In this respect, the modern high school is often like a shopping mall. Schooling becomes another form of consumption. What Powell refers to as a 'treaty' emerges: if students are reasonably orderly and do not cause trouble, they can choose to be engaged in the educational process or to largely ignore it. Others mainly kill time. As in the shopping mall, some are real customers and others simply window-shop or hang out" (Milner 18-19)
1.Lina Yoo
ReplyDelete2.Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls.
Responding to Monica.
3.The tone was very aggressive and she is really passionate about the problems with girls. Comparing her old childhood times, she talks about girl troubles deeply and also is serious about the problems.
4.Both of the books talks about struggles and events with girls throughout their time of age. They are very serious about the girls and talks about their feelings and events as they talked to the girls who are having troubles. Even though they both talk about change and troubles in girls, in “odd girl out” the author talks about life of girls through interview while in “Reviving Ophelia” the author talks about girls with serious problems she had experienced as psychologist.
1. Sara Quon
ReplyDelete2. Queen Bees & Wannabe -> Lisa Fast
"Girls (like all of us) absorb the cultural messages of what a girl should wear and own, and how she should conduct herself, and then they take that information and develop strict social hierarchies based on it. At no time in your daughter's life will it probably feel more important to her to fit these elusive girl standards than during adolescence. But it's also confusing because girl's don't know what thee rules are because they're invisible. You only really learn them when you break them or you see someone else break them and live with the fallout. And who is the prime enforcer of these rules? The movies? The magazines? This is definitely where it starts, but what is often overlooked is that it is the girls themselves who are usually the enforcers. They police one another, conducting surveillance on who's breaking the laws of appearance and clothing, boys and personality-all of which have a profound influence on the women they become. Your daughter gets daily lessons about what's "in" from her friends-and who has the "right" to wear those things. She isn't watching television, movies, or websites by herself. She processes this information with and through her friends...Last, we often don't want to admit how little supervision we really exert over what our children are watching. To be fair, it's really hard to do. You can pick out appropriate TV shows, but then the ads during the commercial breaks are horrible. You can get on a plane, let your child listen to the audio channel, and not know that the song they're listening to is one on the radio station you have forbidden. We need to sit down without daughters (and of course our sons as well) and walk them through how to think about the relentless messages they're getting-we also have to educate ourselves without being afraid to be labeled as the uptight parent. We must, as our daughters. Girls will only reach their full potential if they're taught to be the agents of their own social change. As we guide girls through adolescence, we have to acknowledge it, name it, and empower our girls so they can go into the store with the Queen Bee backpacks and tell the manager to take them off the shelf"(Wiseman 34-35).
3. The author’s description’s tone is concerned for teenage girls.
4. Both authors of Reviving Ophelia and Queen Bee’s and Wannabes blame the environment such as peers and entertainment for the main cause of girls’ problems. They also list examples and potential solutions of these problems. Both authors use life experience and observations to persuade the reader and not psychological facts or research findings. The books both are about girls and their problems.
1.Gracie Kaub
ReplyDelete2. Odd Girl Out-Katelyn Braden
“Silence is deeply woven into the fabric of female expierence. It is only in the last thirty years that we have begun to speak the distinctive truths of women’s lives, openly addressing rape, incest, domestic violence, and women’s health. Although these issues always existed over time we have given them a place in our culture by building public consciousness, policy, and awareness.
Now it is time to end another silence: There is a hidden culture of girls’ aggression in which bullying is epidemic, distinctive, and destructive. It is not marked by the direct physical and verbal behavior that is primarily the province of boys. Our culture refuses girls access to open conflict, and it forces their aggression into nonphysical, indirect, covert forms. Girls use backbiting, exclusion, rumors, name-calling, and manipulation to inflict psychological pain on targeted victims. Unlike boys, who tend to bully acquaintances or strangers, girls frequently attack within tightly knit networks of friends, making aggression harder to identify and intensifying the damage to the victims.
Within the hidden culture of aggression, girls fight with body language and relationships instead of fists and knives. In this world, friendship is a weapon, and the sting of a shout pales in comparison to a day of someone’s silence. There is gesture more devastating than the back turning away” (Simmons 3).
3. The author's tone is concerned but also is very serious about what she is discussing.
4. Queen Bees and Wannabees is like Odd Girl Out because both authors discuss girls behavior and are both very worried for them. They both give examples of what the girls do in real life and explain how they do it. The difference between the two books is that in Odd Girl Out the author discusses what boys would do compared to what girls would do. In Queen Bees and Wannabees the author only talks about how girls think and act. The author from this book also gives parents advice about how to deal with the problem.
Anayely Acosta
ReplyDeleteOdd Girl Out- Monica
“The desire for connection propels children into friendship, while the need for recognition and power ignites competition and conflict. My point is that if all children desire these things, will come to them, and into learning how to acquire them, on the culture’s terms, that is, by the rules of how girls and boys are supposed to behave.
When I began this journey three years ago, I wanted to write so that other bullied girls would know they were not alone. As I spent more and more time with the girls, I realized I was also writing to know that I was not alone. I would so discover that the bullying I endured in third grade was only the tip of the iceberg. I discovered that I harbored pain and confusion over many relationships in my childhood.
Around the circles of girls I met with, I could see I wasn’t the only one who felt this way. The knowledge that we shared similar memories and feelings, that someone else understood what we had previously held inside, was amazing. The relief was palpable, and it opened unexpected doors that we were able to enter together. If we began the journey at the memory of bullying, we ended up asking and answering, more questions about the culture we live in, about how girls treat each other, and even about ourselves than we had ever thought to imagine alone” (9).
The tone of this passage of "Odd Girl Out" is informative but at the same time is very aggressive by retelling a part of her childhood in a passionate lonely way to get her point across. the author felt alone and fearful at the time but learned to over come those stepping stones in her life. She uses many key words to show how there is a sense of solemness in the lives of many teenagers.
My book "Queen Bees and Wannabees" is both similar and differs from the book, they both seem to see that all these problems in teenage girls doesn't just happen to certain ones, it happens to everyone at some point but it differs that in "Odd Girl Out" the author goes deep into analyzing the teenage girls situations and my book just paints the general point.
1. Jai Chopra
ReplyDelete2. Hurt: Inside the World of Today's Teenagers –Jacob Thurber
3. The tone of this excerpt is critical and bitter because of the parent’s attitude towards the teenagers of today compared to when they were teenagers. They continually say that we have more things than they did, yet we don’t take advantage of them. However, the parents seemingly know what they are talking about, so from their perspective it is a matter-of-fact tone.
4. Both Hurt and my book, Freaks Geeks and Cool Kids seem to focus on the subject of why teenagers do what they do. However, Freaks, Geeks, and Cool Kids puts more emphasis on the foundation of teens rather than just what they do. Hurt also uses parents and other people to back up the author’s research; the author in Freaks, Geeks, and Cool Kids simply attempts to win over the reader by stating his and other’s research results. However, both authors base their research on observing teenage behavior
"'When I was in high school...' Throughout this study I must have heard this preamble several dozen times. I did look for ways to stoke the fires of critique and dismay buried beneath the sheen of adult compassion for the young, but it rarely took much effort to get adults going on a critically laced, negative comparison between today's adolescents and themselves. Inevitably and without much prodding, the focus would turn form what I was seeing to what they were convinced of, as evidenced by the following comments:
-'That's interesting. Well, I think it's easier for kids today. They're spoiled; that's the problem!'
-Well, if you ask me, kids today are just lazy-too much to do, too many choices.'
-'There's no respect anymore, and kids don't seem to care about anybody but themselves.'
-Teenagers have never had it easier-they've got more money than we did, more freedoms, more options, and yet they are more defiant and more arrogant than we are.'
-'Teenagers have always been rebellious. But when I was in high school, there were only some who lived on the edge. The rest of us were basically pretty good and normal-we did our homework, listened to our parents, and cared about our school. I think the biggest thing with this generation of kids is that most are like the fringe used to be'" (Clark 30).
1. Teddy Hetherington-Rauth
ReplyDelete2. Chris Doyle’s entry form Hurt
"I decided to function as a participant-observer at a public high school in North Los Angeles County. I chose Crescenta Valley High School because it is a nationally recognized Blue Ribbon School for excellence in academic achievement; as a widely diverse ethnic population (including newly arrived immigrant students); has historically strong and diverse sports, music and drama programs; and has a mean population that is socioeconomically middle class with an extremely wide economic divergence. In addition, the co-principals were supportive of many noninvasive research methods and were even interested in interacting with and learning from the study in order to improve the academic experience for each student in the school.
In attempting to understand more fully what life is like from middle adolescence, I decided to conduct an ethnographic study (I basically became apart of their world) instead of relying on either objectified quantitative instruments such as written questionnaires, which would greatly limit the scope of the inquiry, or less personal qualitative methodologies such as phone surveys, which depend heavily on small sample interviews and controlled environment settings. Participant/ observation research methodology allows for and even encourages new and fresh insights and avoids a priori conceptual or theoretical limitations in a changing sociocultural environment. A tenet of qualitative methodology is the conviction that "social research is an interactive rather than controlling process." Therefore, ethnography, a form of more deeply qualitative research, is a useful tool in attempting to grasp the world of a specific population and changing environment. Although this type of research has some obvious limitations, such as the researcher's own historical, socioeconomic, gender, and ethic biases, a great deal of insight can be gained when a social scientist is welcomed into a relatively closed system and is able to function as a participant who is also allowed to record his or her experiences as an observer." (10-11)
3. The tone of this excerpt is a very neutral tone. The author seems to be modest in the fact that this school is very diverse and is an excellent place to research adolescences live, but the excerpt seems to be written professionally and shows little emotion. The excerpt is also filled with details that show the writer feels the need to inform readers.
4. Compared to my author, this author seems to rely on facts to find out answers among teens, while mine uses more theory to come up with answers, but the similarity seems to end there. Like my author, they seem to both research by going into the teenage world to find out answers by seeing it first hand, and also both seems to focus on how teens act and why they act the way the do.
Yashna Nandan
ReplyDeleteReviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls; Lina Yoo
"An analysis of the culture cannot ignore individual differences in women. Some women blossom and grow under the most hostile conditions while others wither after the smallest storms. And yet we are more alike than different in the issues that face us. The important question is, under what conditions do most young women flower and grow?
Adolescent clients intrigue me as they struggle to sort themselves out. But I wouldn’t have written this book had it not been for these last few years when my office had been filled with girls – girls with eating disorders, alcohol problems, posttraumatic stress reactions to sexual or physical assaults, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), self-inflicted injuries and strange phobias, and girls who have tried to kill themselves or run away. A health department survey showed that 40 percent of all girls in my Midwestern city considered suicide last year. The Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta reports that the suicide rate among children age ten to fourteen rose 75 percent between 1979 and 1988. Something dramatic is happening to adolescent girls in America, something unnoticed by those not on the front lines."
The tone of this excerpt is concerned yet determined. The author is worried about the welfare of adolescent girls and is determined to inform the audience of their hardships.
Both Reviving Ophelia and my book, Odd Girl Out, rely on statistics to emphasize arguments or anecdotes.
1. Britny Gilfillan
ReplyDelete2. Haley Gardner- Queen Bees and Wannabees
“Music is and always has been powerful, and never more so than during the teen years. Think about the music that brings back your strongest memories-isn’t it from when you were young? When I was a teen, I loved Depeche Mode (in fact I still do). One of my favorite albums was Violators. If you don’t know every word for it that the whole thing is about a guy having a hypnotic control over a girl. It was pretty much as if Edward Cullen in Twilight joined a rock group and sang to me. And for those of you who love the classics, your music isn’t off the hook either.…Music means something to us because it touches the most profound aspect of our lives. Loves, lust, jealousy, alienation, confusion, anger, loneliness, insecurity: it’s all there. And, more often than not, the times we feel these emotions the most strongly occur when we’re teens” (46).
3. The tone of this passage is appreciative because the author is stating how important music is to teens and how it describes how teenagers feel.
4. This excerpt focuses on the importance of music and how it can help teens relate to the songs. My book describes how adults typically tend to stay away from teens because they don't understand them, unlike music.
1. Luke Weiser
ReplyDelete2.Daniel Wei-Freaks, Geeks, and Cool Kids
"Most analysis in the reproduction tradition are interested in increasing quality and opportunity...they have two radical limitations. The first limitation is the implicit assumption that the primary goal should be equal opportunity. The whole notion...implies that if the children of the poor had the same opportunities as the children of the rich, all would be right with the world. I reject this assumption. Even if there were complete equality of opportunity...inequality could still be a serious social problem...Those who make the higher grades do not get more food and better clothes, or even a significantly bigger allowance. Societies are not families, but the extent of inequality is an important issue affecting many aspects of a society's life...
The second limitation of many studies...is that they focus on a question that...is of secondary importance. They try to find out why the working classes and disadvantaged are either politically passive or supportive to the basic structrue and ideaology of advanced capitalism. The assumption is that political mobilization of the disadvantaged is the crucial prerequistite to change. In contrast, I believe that if we want to understand...advanced capitalist societies we need to focus primarily...on the broad middle class. It is their support that is crucial...the stories of how privileges of the upper classes and disadvantages of the lower classes...are secondary to the politics of consumer societies. The crucial story is what the middle classes support and why" (Joyce 16-17).
3. The tone of this passage is very professional and persuasive, asking questions about the life of middle class teens. It is also a little critical, criticizing how many analysts ask questions that are bias and not relevant to the important subject.
4. First of all, the excerpt in my personal blog was completely centered around the specific problems of an adolescent teen while this particular passage more refers to the questions on how the adolescents of the middle class live in society. The research for this excerpt seems to be based more on surveys while the research in my previous blog was complete hands on experience from a mother and a teacher.
1. Andrew Cho
ReplyDelete2. Niki Thomason: Queen Bees & Wannabees
"I have been asked this question countless times by people who have already made up their mind about the answer. It's as if parents think there's something in the water that's making girls nastier. You may not like my answer. It's not in the water, it's in the mirror. Parents are buying into a culture that believes it's "cute" to buy trendy, sexy clothes or funny that an eight-year old can lypsync the latest Britney Spears or Katy Perry song. So funny that the adults then put it on youtube for everyone to see. It has become a custom for moms and their prepubscent daughters to get manicure and pedicures. When i was growing up, I went to the salon with my mom and it was a bonding experience-as i watched her get her hair done. But having a good time with her didn't depend on getting to do the same thing she did.
So it's not that girls are getting pushed to be meaner. It's that they are being pushed to be older (as opposed to more mature, which would lend itself to increased sense of responsibility, etc.) Being mean is just a by-product. Adults are the ones who create and give young girls access to content that assumes they are already teens, or want to be. Cartoons are based on reality shows that depict girls as superficial and catty; toys and websites teach them to be famous and "celebrities" with all the accompanying clothes, jewelery, clothes, and entitled spoiled attitudes"(56).
3. There is somewhat of an agitated tone. The author is agitated with the fact that media has influenced the parents of girls as well as the girls themselves that childhood is a bad thing and that they should be mature women even at extremely young ages. Also the author has an angry tone because parents actually praise girls for abandoning their childhood and trying to become a mature women.
4. My independent read (Hurt: Inside the World of Today's Teenagers) and Nikki's book are similar in the way that the authors present their points. They at first point out and specify their problem and then explains the reasons behind the problem and the cause and somewhat infers to the reader to hypothesize a solution, engaging the reader. Yet the subject matter differs as Nikki's exposes the problem specifically but in my independent read it somewhat generalizes and talks about the "secret world" of teenagers rather than the specific aspects of the teenage microcosm. Methods of research seem to be similar as the author of Nikki's excerpt seems to have had a first hand experience with her topic which coincides with the author of my independent read's first hand experience.
1. Elizabeth Chelling
ReplyDelete2. Reviving Ophelia:Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls;Sara Quon
The story of Ophelia, from Shakespeare's Hamlet, shows the destructive forces that affect young women. As a girl, Ophelia is happy and free, but with adolescence she loses herself. When she falls in love with Hamlet, she lives only for his approval. She has no inner direction; rather she struggles to meet the demands of Hamlet and her father. Her value is determined utterly by their approval. Ophelia is torn apart by her efforts to please. When Hamlet spurns her because she is an obedient daughter, she goes mad with grief. Dressed in elegant clothes that weigh her down, she drowns in a stream filled with flowers.
Girls know they are losing themselves. One girl said, 'Everything good in me died in junior high.' Wholeness is shattered by the chaos of adolescence. Girls become fragmented, their selves split into mysterious contradictions. They are sensitive and tenderhearted, mean and competitive, superficial and idealistic. They are confident in the morning and overwhelmed with anxiety by nightfall. They rush through their days with wild energy and then collapse into lethargy. They try on new roles every week-this week the good student, next week the delinquent and the next, the artist. And they expect their families to keep up with these changes.
My clients in early adolescence are elusive and slow to trust adults. They are easily offended by a glance, a clearing of the throat, a silence, a lack of sufficient enthusiasm or a sentence that doesn't meet their more immediate needs. Their voices have gone underground-their speech is more tentative and less articulate. Their moods swing widely. One week they love their world and their families, the next they are critical of everyone. Much of their behavior is unreadable. Their problems are complicated and metaphorical-eating disorders, school phobias and self-inflicted injuries. I need to ask again and again in a dozen different ways, 'What are you trying to tell me?'" (Pipher 20).
3. The tone in this excerpt is sympathetic to teenage girls, and also seems perplexed or confused at how quickly girls change. As if girls are foreign. It is a rapid tone. It matches the attitude of teenage girls-like a thunderstorm, crazy and constantly-changing, to the point where it is almost humorous. The tone is also torn, because it shows how much girls want to please and how it is ruining them and our society. Phrases like, “she lives only for his approval”, “wholeness is shattered by the chaos of adolescence”, and “I need to ask again and again in a dozen different ways, ’What are you trying to tell me?’” create this.
4. This excerpt is similar to Queen Bees and Wannabees in the fact that it is sympathetic and seems to have inside knowledge of girls. It also gets direct statements of what girls say, just like Queen Bees and Wannabees. It tries to relate ‘girl thinking’ into other ways, although Queen Bees and Wannabees uses fake scenario/allusions (saying things like girl’s are holding on to a raft and the raft is leaving the ship aka parents), while Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls used an actual allusion to a work by Shakespeare. Also, the author in Reviving Ophelia seems a little bit more psychologist like/school counselor, whereas in Queen Bees and Wannabees she is seems more like a knowledgeable parent.
1. Elizabeth Chelling
ReplyDelete2. Reviving Ophelia:Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls;Sara Quon
The story of Ophelia, from Shakespeare's Hamlet, shows the destructive forces that affect young women. As a girl, Ophelia is happy and free, but with adolescence she loses herself. When she falls in love with Hamlet, she lives only for his approval. She has no inner direction; rather she struggles to meet the demands of Hamlet and her father. Her value is determined utterly by their approval. Ophelia is torn apart by her efforts to please. When Hamlet spurns her because she is an obedient daughter, she goes mad with grief. Dressed in elegant clothes that weigh her down, she drowns in a stream filled with flowers.
Girls know they are losing themselves. One girl said, 'Everything good in me died in junior high.' Wholeness is shattered by the chaos of adolescence. Girls become fragmented, their selves split into mysterious contradictions. They are sensitive and tenderhearted, mean and competitive, superficial and idealistic. They are confident in the morning and overwhelmed with anxiety by nightfall. They rush through their days with wild energy and then collapse into lethargy. They try on new roles every week-this week the good student, next week the delinquent and the next, the artist. And they expect their families to keep up with these changes.
My clients in early adolescence are elusive and slow to trust adults. They are easily offended by a glance, a clearing of the throat, a silence, a lack of sufficient enthusiasm or a sentence that doesn't meet their more immediate needs. Their voices have gone underground-their speech is more tentative and less articulate. Their moods swing widely. One week they love their world and their families, the next they are critical of everyone. Much of their behavior is unreadable. Their problems are complicated and metaphorical-eating disorders, school phobias and self-inflicted injuries. I need to ask again and again in a dozen different ways, 'What are you trying to tell me?'" (Pipher 20).
3. The tone in this excerpt is sympathetic to teenage girls, and also seems perplexed or confused at how quickly girls change. As if girls are foreign. It is a rapid tone. It matches the attitude of teenage girls-like a thunderstorm, crazy and constantly-changing, to the point where it is almost humorous. The tone is also torn, because it shows how much girls want to please and how it is ruining them and our society. Phrases like, “she lives only for his approval”, “wholeness is shattered by the chaos of adolescence”, and “I need to ask again and again in a dozen different ways, ’What are you trying to tell me?’” create this.
4. This excerpt is similar to Queen Bees and Wannabees in the fact that it is sympathetic and seems to have inside knowledge of girls. It also gets direct statements of what girls say, just like Queen Bees and Wannabees. It tries to relate ‘girl thinking’ into other ways, although Queen Bees and Wannabees uses fake scenario/allusions (saying things like girl’s are holding on to a raft and the raft is leaving the ship aka parents), while Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls used an actual allusion to a work by Shakespeare. Also, the author in Reviving Ophelia seems a little bit more psychologist like/school counselor, whereas in Queen Bees and Wannabees she is seems more like a knowledgeable parent.
Melissa Vazquez
ReplyDeleteSaving the Selves of Adolescent Girls- Lina Yoo
“An analysis of the culture cannot ignore individual differences in women. Some women blossom and grow under the most hostile conditions while others wither after the smallest storms. And yet we are more alike than different in the issues that face us. The important question is, under what conditions do most young women flower and grow?
Adolescent clients intrigue me as they struggle to sort themselves out. But I wouldn’t have written this book had it not been for these last few years when my office had been filled with girls – girls with eating disorders, alcohol problems, posttraumatic stress reactions to sexual or physical assaults, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), self-inflicted injuries and strange phobias, and girls who have tried to kill themselves or run away. A health department survey showed that 40 percent of all girls in my Midwestern city considered suicide last year. The Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta reports that the suicide rate among children age ten to fourteen rose 75 percent between 1979 and 1988. Something dramatic is happening to adolescent girls in America, something unnoticed by those not on the front lines.”
The tone seems concerned and anxious in this passage because of the author’s use of specific and dramatic examples to support her claims on how adolescent girls struggle with many conflicts, and many times do not have the mental strength to keep fighting.
This excerpt compared to mine from Odd Girl Out was concentrating more on the variety of girl’s issues, both with others and with themselves, while mine was more focused on girl’s aggression towards one another. This author uses more statistics to support her statements rather than Rachel Simons who uses other girl’s stories as concrete details. This quote also focuses more on a girl’s growth and development and under what situations can they undergo this transition.
1. Monica Brady
ReplyDelete2. Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls, Lina Yoo
3. The author is disturbed by the increased difficulties and sufferings that the girls are going through now more than ever and is horrified by the things she has seen of the girls who come to her office and feels remorse and pity for them and desires to help them.
4. The subject of my book, Odd Girl Out, is more focused on girls bullying each other whereas Reviving Ophelia encompasses a broader range of the troubles and hardships that girls go through in modern society. Reviving Ophelia uses more statistics in this passage than in the one I chose, which refers mostly to interviews with girls or women, but they both allude to and use their own personal experiences with or as girls to persuade the reader.
1. Jacob Thurber
ReplyDelete2.Jai Chopra
"Obviously, a crucial difference between a factory and a school is the nature of the raw material. Wood, coal, and ore have no 'mind of their own'; they do not actively resist being transformed; students often do. Consequently, if the mix of students admitted to school is more variable, and if the content of the education remains the same for everyone, we can predict with confidence that resistance will increase. Since coercive means of suppressing reistance have been banned or significantly resticted, schools have had to find other remedies for maintaining order. In part, they have done this by expanding the variety of options available to students-attempting to have something of interest for everyone. If schools have similarities with factories, increasingly they also resemble shopping malls. This was the thesis of Arthur G. Powell and this coleagues in an influential book entitled "The Shopping Mall High School". Modern high schools have significantly increased in ize (though these trends are more complex) and in the array of courses and services they provide. In addition to the wide variety of non-academic activities are available: sports teams, computer clubs, debate teams, drama, dance and singing groups, drill teams, cheerleading, editing school newspapers and yearbooks- and more. The service curiculum includes counselors who advise about course selection and college admissions, and nurses who provide medical services. Special programs are offered for students who are pregnant, have young children, are abused by parents, or are addicted to drugs- to mention only a few of the services offered. Because of the wide array of courses, activities, and services offered, 'choice' becomes central to adolescents. They must decide what selection and combination of these alternatives will recieve their time, and perhaps, their attention. In this respect, the modern high school is often like a shopping mall. Schooling becaomes another form of consumption. What Powell refers to as a 'treaty' emerges: if students are reasonably orderly and do not cause trouble, they can choose to be engaged in the educational process or to largely ignore it. Others mainly kill time. As in the shopping mall, some are real customers and others simply window-shop or hang out" (Milner 18-19)
3. The author seems to have a contemplative tone about the ideas he is bringing up in the excerpt. The author is comparing two places where students visit often. The main comparison that the author sees is the increase in size and services of high schools, making them more like shopping malls.
4. The subject matter is much different in my book, Hurt, and Freaks, Geeks, and Cool Kids. Hurt focuses on how teenagers are changing from the teenagers from their parent's times, while Freaks, Geeks, and Cool Kids focuses on how and why teens develop strict social groups. The ways both authors researched their topics seem the same though. The authors also seem to use the same ways of persuasion to get their points across in their separate novels.
1) Andrew Woyshner
ReplyDelete2) Hurt: Inside the World of Today’s Teenagers (excerpt taken by Andrew Cho)
3) The author has a very bitter tone not only to the way adolescent’s behave, but also with the way the parents put them in their position by pushing them away instead of nurturing them. The author also uses an accusing tone by blaming parents, technology, television, etc. for pushing adolescents into the position they are stuck in now.
4) This excerpt is similar to Queen Bees and Wanabees because they both explain how the adolescent world is very different from the adult world and how parents can do something to try to understand the adolescent world and possibly change it for the better. The author of Hurt seems to have a more scientific, researched point of view, and the author of Queen Bees and Wanabees has hands on experience with girls that have the problems she describes. Hurt is more about historical teenagers and timelines about the adolescent world, and Queen Bees and Wanabees only describes the social structure of modern adolescent girls.
Amber Stoebe
ReplyDeleteReviving Ophelia Excerpt by: Lina Yoo
An analysis of the culture cannot ignore individual differences in women. Some women blossom and grow under the most hostile conditions while others wither after the smallest storms. And yet we are more alike than different in the issues that face us. The important question is, under what conditions do most young women flower and grow?
Adolescent clients intrigue me as they struggle to sort themselves out. But I wouldn’t have written this book had it not been for these last few years when my office had been filled with girls – girls with eating disorders, alcohol problems, posttraumatic stress reactions to sexual or physical assaults, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), self-inflicted injuries and strange phobias, and girls who have tried to kill themselves or run away. A health department survey showed that 40 percent of all girls in my Midwestern city considered suicide last year. The Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta reports that the suicide rate among children age ten to fourteen rose 75 percent between 1979 and 1988. Something dramatic is happening to adolescent girls in America, something unnoticed by those not on the front lines.
The tone of this passage is despairing and melancholy yet informative in a way that shines light on reality.
Queen Bees and Wanna Bees is different from this excerpt because the author of Reviving Ophelia goes deeper into her ideas on adolescent women and provides specific statistics to emphasize realistic problems girls have. In contrast, the author of Queen Bees and Wanna Bees does not use statistics; instead she illustrates her own personal ideas and opinions on problems, and gives advice to parents and teens on how to cope with them.
1. Niki Thomason
ReplyDelete2.Brittny Gilfalin Hurt
"Adolescents have the ability to apply abstract thought and reflective action within a given realm, or layer, of life. But once a midadolescent has moved on from a layer- be it a relationship, a role, an expectation, or an activity- he or she creates a different, almost totally unique conceptualization process in the new layer and then applies abstract thought and processing in that context as well. This has always been true of adolescents who have the ability to actualize abstract and nuanced though processes. But what is new is the lack of ability to construct bridges between one layer and another. The inability to see contradictions as contradictions and the ability to easily rationalize seemingly irreconcilable beliefs, attitudes, or values are but two of many markers that may be pointing to a new emerging phase of adolescent development and may provide a key indicator of the essence of midadolescence.
In some ways, I am diving into waters that go beyond the scope of my academic training and expertise, yet I am also aware that few have allowed themselves to ask whether changes in culture may have an effect on the cognitive (and therefore moral and even spiritual) development of an adolescent. This is for others to discuess, debate, and research, but I am certain that something is going on, something that has changed the very nature of adolescence" (20-21).
3.The tone seems to be complementary towards us kids almost and it isnt as harsh yet it still is factual and has a serious tone to it.
4. Compared to me book Queen Bees and Wannabes the tone is very negative and it has an apathetic towards us kids and what we do; however, both seem to show the nature of adolescence and the growth we undergo.
1.Drake Cook
ReplyDelete2. Nichole Hensen
"Technology can be your friend if you use it to strengthen your communication with other parents. If you have friended them on facebook, it will be a lot harder for girls to exploit information vacuums between parents because there wont be any. This weapon, however must be used strategically. You want your daughter to be slightly paranoid that you have the capacity to keep in touch with other patents but you don't want her freaked out that she's countersneaks or doesn't tell you her problems because she's so worried you're going to immediately sit down and fire off a nasty email to some other person.
When you have a teenager your gaol is to keep one step ahead of them. This has been and always will be the goal. Likewise, teens will always be looking for the next way to pull one over on you. Don't take it personally. And remember, a small degree of fear and paranoia can literally save your child's life."
3. The author has a objective in his tone. The objective that teens are always watched and technology is adults ally because of the things that can keep them in contact with child. The author at the same time is striking fear to any teen readers because the authors letting us know that adults know whats going on and always watching.
4. This is much different then my book. In hurt the author is sending a tone of sympathy and questioning to what is going on in the teenage secret world and how they can help. The author wants to open adults eyes to wake makes us tick and how they can help.
Daniel Weis
ReplyDeleteAllison Woyshner: Queen Bees and Wannabes
" Imagine you and your daughter on a cruise ship. The cruise director's job is to make sure your daughter is reasonably happy and entertained. There are scheduled activities and if she hurts herself, someone will be there to get her back on her feet. She knows most of the people on the ship and everything is familiar. But just as lemmings communicate with each other when it's time to start hurling themselves off cliffs and into the sea, girls start telling each other the ship is stupid and boring and it's time to get off. As you watch helplessly, she leaves behind everything that is safe and secure, gets into a life raft with people who have little in common with her except their age, and drifts away.
Once in the raft she may ask herself, how did I get here? Why did I go? But when she looks around, sees that the ship is impossibly far away, the waves are too big, and there are a limited number of supplies, she quickly realizes that her survival depends on the bonding with the other girls in that life raft. But your daughter isn't stupid. This realization is quickly followed by another one. She's trapped." (38)
The tone of this passage is one of grave foreboding. It seems to be warning both teenage girls and their parents of the dangerous decisions and future they may be heading towards. It is almost as if it is a warning, a glaring caution sign in the middle of the road saying, "This is where you are headed. Please, change course."
Queen Bees and Wannabes seems to use a very different system of facts, explanations, and emotions than Freaks, Geeks, and Cool Kids. Freaks, Geeks, and Cool Kids is extremely factual book containing very little tone or emotion. It sticks to facts, theories, and studies to emphasize its point. On the other hand, Queen Bees and Wannabes seems to fluctuate between fact and fiction, literal and theoretical, monotone and emotional. The author uses real world situations to express not only the information on teenage girls, but also her beliefs and tone towards these actions and characteristics.
1. Conrad Jin
ReplyDelete2. Niki Thomason: Queen Bees & Wannabees
"I have been asked this question countless times by people who have already made up their mind about the answer. It's as if parents think there's something in the water that's making girls nastier. You may not like my answer. It's not in the water, it's in the mirror. Parents are buying into a culture that believes it's "cute" to buy trendy, sexy clothes or funny that an eight-year old can lypsync the latest Britney Spears or Katy Perry song. So funny that the adults then put it on youtube for everyone to see. It has become a custom for moms and their prepubscent daughters to get manicure and pedicures. When i was growing up, I went to the salon with my mom and it was a bonding experience-as i watched her get her hair done. But having a good time with her didn't depend on getting to do the same thing she did.
So it's not that girls are getting pushed to be meaner. It's that they are being pushed to be older (as opposed to more mature, which would lend itself to increased sense of responsibility, etc.) Being mean is just a by-product. Adults are the ones who create and give young girls access to content that assumes they are already teens, or want to be. Cartoons are based on reality shows that depict girls as superficial and catty; toys and websites teach them to be famous and "celebrities" with all the accompanying clothes, jewelery, clothes, and entitled spoiled attitudes"(56).
3. The tone is an irritated and angry tone, because the girls were not only negatively influenced by the media to hurry into maturity, but they were also encouraged by their parents to cast aside their childhood to leap into adulthood.
4. The similarities lie in the fact that our books both give examples of the problem while explaining the reasoning behind the problem, which prompts the reader to hypothesize. However, the main difference is in the way the information is presented. While Queen Bees & Wannabees directly exposes the problem and analyzes it, while Hurt simply generalizes about the crisis at hand.
1. Allison Woyshner
ReplyDelete2. Odd Girl Out: Savannah Moody
"The rite-of-passage theory suggests several disturbing assumption about girls. First, it implies that there is nothing we can do to prevent girls from behaving in these ways because its in their developmental tea leaves to do it. In other words, because so many girls engage in alternative aggressions, they must be naturally predisposed to them. Bullying as a rite of passage also suggests that it is necessary and even positive that girls learn how to relate with each other in these ways. Rites of passage, after all, are rituals that mark the transformation of an individual from one status to another. So the rite of passage means that girls are becoming acquainted with what is in store for them as later adults. Because adult women behave in this way, it means its acceptable and must be prepared for. (Many despairing mothers i spoke with, as well as those who shrugged off the bullying , confided a sense of consolation that their girls were learning what they'd come to know sooner or later)" (Simmons 33-34).
3. The tone of this passage is matter-of-fact as the author believes that the teenagers have to face bullying while involved in their right of passage process as the author is not for or against it.
4. These two different books both percieve adolecence in different perspectives to those who read them. The similarities are that they both give problems that both authors give problems that the teenagers face with logical reasoning behind to support their ideas to the readers.
Kaitlyn Braden
ReplyDeleteReviving Ophelia: Lina Yoo
An analysis of the culture cannot ignore individual differences in women. Some women blossom and grow under the most hostile conditions while others wither after the smallest storms. And yet we are more alike than different in the issues that face us. The important question is, under what conditions do most young women flower and grow?
Adolescent clients intrigue me as they struggle to sort themselves out. But I wouldn’t have written this book had it not been for these last few years when my office had been filled with girls – girls with eating disorders, alcohol problems, posttraumatic stress reactions to sexual or physical assaults, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), self-inflicted injuries and strange phobias, and girls who have tried to kill themselves or run away. A health department survey showed that 40 percent of all girls in my Midwestern city considered suicide last year. The Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta reports that the suicide rate among children age ten to fourteen rose 75 percent between 1979 and 1988. Something dramatic is happening to adolescent girls in America, something unnoticed by those not on the front lines.
The author’s tone of Reviving Ophelia is grave, yet informative and somewhat amused by girl’s behavior. Reviving Ophelia informs reader of girls struggle to grow, and gives statistics of girls suicidal thoughts. Reviving Ophelia focuses more on individual problems with themselves and finding their identity whereas the Odd Girl Out focuses more on girl’s bullying and manipulating one another. Also, Reviving Ophelia displays girl’s psychological struggles to feel secure. Unlike Reviving Ophelia, Rachel Simmons, author of Odd Girl Out, uses interviews of girl’s experiences.
Haley Gardner Per 3
ReplyDeleteMonica: Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls
“The desire for connection propels children into friendship, while the need for recognition and power ignites competition and conflict. My point is that if all children desire these things, will come to them, and into learning how to acquire them, on the culture’s terms, that is, by the rules of how girls and boys are supposed to behave.
When I began this journey three years ago, I wanted to write so that other bullied girls would know they were not alone. As I spent more and more time with the girls, I realized I was also writing to know that I was not alone. I would so discover that the bullying I endured in third grade was only the tip of the iceberg. I discovered that I harbored pain and confusion over many relationships in my childhood.
Around the circles of girls I met with, I could see I wasn’t the only one who felt this way. The knowledge that we shared similar memories and feelings, that someone else understood what we had previously held inside, was amazing. The relief was palpable, and it opened unexpected doors that we were able to enter together. If we began the journey at the memory of bullying, we ended up asking and answering, more questions about the culture we live in, about how girls treat each other, and even about ourselves than we had ever thought to imagine alone” (9).
This passage has somewhat of a negative tone. By using words like “endure” and “harbored pain”, the reader can relate to the author and the children she is analyzing, making the tone also very emotional because the author is recollecting how her life can relate to these bullied girls.
According to this passage, Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls is very similar to Queen Bees and Wannabes because they both address the topic of major issues that teenager girls share, and why they have these problems. Also, often times in Queen Bees and Wannabes, the author will clearly state her opinion on the subject matter of share a meaningful anecdote with readers, and does the author of Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls. However, in my novel, the author gives more of a step-by-step process on how to help the parents deal with this problem, rather than simply telling readers why these girls have the problems that they do.
1. Elizabeth Chelling
ReplyDelete2. Reviving Ophelia:Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls;Sara Quon
The story of Ophelia, from Shakespeare's Hamlet, shows the destructive forces that affect young women. As a girl, Ophelia is happy and free, but with adolescence she loses herself. When she falls in love with Hamlet, she lives only for his approval. She has no inner direction; rather she struggles to meet the demands of Hamlet and her father. Her value is determined utterly by their approval. Ophelia is torn apart by her efforts to please. When Hamlet spurns her because she is an obedient daughter, she goes mad with grief. Dressed in elegant clothes that weigh her down, she drowns in a stream filled with flowers.
Girls know they are losing themselves. One girl said, 'Everything good in me died in junior high.' Wholeness is shattered by the chaos of adolescence. Girls become fragmented, their selves split into mysterious contradictions. They are sensitive and tenderhearted, mean and competitive, superficial and idealistic. They are confident in the morning and overwhelmed with anxiety by nightfall. They rush through their days with wild energy and then collapse into lethargy. They try on new roles every week-this week the good student, next week the delinquent and the next, the artist. And they expect their families to keep up with these changes.
My clients in early adolescence are elusive and slow to trust adults. They are easily offended by a glance, a clearing of the throat, a silence, a lack of sufficient enthusiasm or a sentence that doesn't meet their more immediate needs. Their voices have gone underground-their speech is more tentative and less articulate. Their moods swing widely. One week they love their world and their families, the next they are critical of everyone. Much of their behavior is unreadable. Their problems are complicated and metaphorical-eating disorders, school phobias and self-inflicted injuries. I need to ask again and again in a dozen different ways, 'What are you trying to tell me?'" (Pipher 20).
3. The tone in this excerpt is sympathetic to teenage girls, and also seems perplexed or confused at how quickly girls change. As if girls are foreign. It is a rapid tone. It matches the attitude of teenage girls-like a thunderstorm, crazy and constantly-changing, to the point where it is almost humorous. The tone is also torn, because it shows how much girls want to please and how it is ruining them and our society. Phrases like, “she lives only for his approval”, “wholeness is shattered by the chaos of adolescence”, and “I need to ask again and again in a dozen different ways, ’What are you trying to tell me?’” create this tone.
4. This excerpt is similar to Queen Bees and Wannabees in the fact that it is sympathetic and seems to have inside knowledge of girls. It also gets direct statements of what girls say, just like Queen Bees and Wannabees. It tries to relate ‘girl thinking’ into other ways, although Queen Bees and Wannabees uses fake scenario/allusions (saying things like girl’s are holding on to a raft and the raft is leaving the ship aka parents), while Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls used an actual allusion to a work by Shakespeare. Also, the author in Reviving Ophelia seems a little bit more psychologist like/school counselor, whereas in Queen Bees and Wannabees she is seems more like a knowledgeable parent.
1. Jessica Hansen
ReplyDelete2. Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls - Lina Yoo
An analysis of the culture cannot ignore individual differences in women. Some women blossom and grow under the most hostile conditions while others wither after the smallest storms. And yet we are more alike than different in the issues that face us. The important question is, under what conditions do most young women flower and grow?
Adolescent clients intrigue me as they struggle to sort themselves out. But I wouldn’t have written this book had it not been for these last few years when my office had been filled with girls – girls with eating disorders, alcohol problems, posttraumatic stress reactions to sexual or physical assaults, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), self-inflicted injuries and strange phobias, and girls who have tried to kill themselves or run away. A health department survey showed that 40 percent of all girls in my Midwestern city considered suicide last year. The Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta reports that the suicide rate among children age ten to fourteen rose 75 percent between 1979 and 1988. Something dramatic is happening to adolescent girls in America, something unnoticed by those not on the front lines.
3. The tone of this excerpt is critical to how young girls can be like this without adults knowing about it and also serious by explaining the true facts of some of the problems young girls have.
4. This relates to my book by being critical to how parents and adults are so caught up in their lives, and don't even try to understand their teenager's lives.
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ReplyDeleteLucas Weiser
ReplyDeleteQueen Bees and Wannabees
“Meanwhile, girls are still in the thick of Girl World—where people won’t tell you why they’re mad at you, friends tease you and then dismiss your feelings with “Just Kidding!,” and everyone texts and instant messages every rumor and embarrassing photograph about you. So the first time your daughter tells you that all her friends have stopped talking to her and she has no idea why, you want to know what to say and what to do—beyond wanting to yell at all those horrible children you now hate. But then things get more complicated when you pick her up the next day at school and there she is arm in arm with one of those Mean Girls like nothing ever happened. You stare at your daughter as she opens the door and begs you to let this kid come over, refusing to acknowledge that she has been co-opted by the Mean Girl World and ignoring your “Are you kidding me?” expression.
Welcome to the wonderful worldof your daughter’s adolescence. Ten seconds ago she was a sweet, confident little girl. Now you can’t breathe in her direction without getting that really annoying eye roll, followed by the equally irritating sigh. Or maybe, one day she’s insecure and wants to sit on your lap, but the next day she’s threatening to run away and you’re ready to pack her bag. She’s facing the toughest pressures of adolescent life—test-driving her new body (while you’re giving her a big sweatshirt to cover up that figure she seemed to have developed overnight), navigating changing friendships, surviving crushes, trying to keep up with school—and intuitively you know even though she’s sometimes totally obnoxious, she needs you more than ever. Yet it’s the very time when she’s pulling away from you” (pg. 2).
S: The subject of this passage is how adolescent teenagers act toward their parents and toward their friends, and why they do so.
O: This passage, along with the entire novel, takes place in a modern time. The speaker relates to current fashions and fads, which helps to legitimize the writing and help the reader relate to the writing and ideas.
A: This passage is directed towards mothers who have a daughter who has either just began her teenage years or will soon begin her adolescence.
P: The purpose of this passage is to help mothers understand why their daughter acts in such an ungrateful, disrespectful way at times and how hard their lives really are compared to what parents think goes on in their child’s life.
S: The speaker is the author, obviously a teacher with massive amounts of experience with teenage girls. She probably has a couple daughters of her own so she can give first hand examples of how daughters can grow to resent over-powering parents.