Hi, there. How is it going? I hope you remember about this. I would like you to be someone's Agony Aunt. Do you want to know what this person usually does? Click here and have a look at some examples on several issues. In this case, this woman has spent quite a long time doing the same: giving advice.
After you are done with that, I'd like you to answer to a couple of letters by someone very special: Celie. She is both the protagonist and narrator of The Color Purple, "a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker that won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction.[1][a] It was later adapted into a film and musical of the same name."( from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Color_Purple).
If you want some more information to do this task, just like the author herself before she started writing the novel, you can click here to have access to summary and analysis of all the letters. You can also see videos to have an idea about how life was like during those days. For example, this one may be really moving. Yet there are some others which will be as good as this one when it comes to show such a harsh reality surrounded by brutal and intricate relationships.
horrible task as homework, inapropiate
ReplyDeleteHi, Anónimo! How is it going? It looks like you're complaining. I hope you've handed in the letter, have you?. Maybe you haven't noticed but you've had a week to do it, which is pretty much; besides, I didn't ask you to read the whole book. And it makes me wonder how utterly horrible it could have been if I had asked you to do it in the classroom while taking a reading-writing test. Don't you think so?
DeleteBy the way, it seems you have forgotten again something very important: you have to clarify your ideas. If you say, for example, inappropriate, are you talking about the topic, the type of composition, the characters in the novel, the words I used,your level of proficiency,...? Anyway, thanks for your feedback.
The unpleasant is the text I think, because the content It`s too nasty.
ReplyDeleteHi teacher,
ReplyDeleteWhat I really wanted to say is that I did not like the wording of the letters, neither the topic.It did not seem right as homework. The tone of the text, as lewd and using expressions like "pusing his thing inside my pussy ...." or "I got my breast full of milk running down myself." Maybe letters are real, but I do not think are appropriate and much less write a letter advising a rape victim who has that kind of life, I think it is a very serious issue that is shown in a poor situation.
Thanks for answering.
Hi, there. I hope you read the whole novel; if so you could find much better or happier moments in Celie's life. What's happened to this girl is currently still such an ordinary fact, it's so normal even in developed countries, that I thought about it as nasty too; yet, not in the sense of "disgustingly dirty" or "physically repellent" but meaning " difficult to solve or handle".
DeleteRegarding the "milk running down myself" thing, just see it simply as a naive comment from someone who is learning not at school. Maybe she's put it into words in a very, say, coarse and crude way. But she's been brought up in a rural environment, and that could be the image of any female, animal or human being, after having born a baby.
Anyway, it reminds of some controversy about breastfeeding in Ireland some years ago: lots of men were calling those days to radio programmes to express their concern about doing that in public