While you all comment on the blog this first week, please be sure to include your names in your post - especially if your handle for this blog is different than your actual name. This way, I can make sure to give you credit for your thoughts.
As we enter the second week of class, I believe it's important we keep connecting all the new ideas discussed in class. This kind of connection will not only help you with crucial critical thinking skills, but help you streamline your ideas for the upcoming essays for this class.
Like I mentioned in the syllabus, please use this space as a place to further explore what we've already covered in class - "Girl", Sylvia Plath's journal entry, Ted Hughes' defenses and explanations. All the documents I've used so far (aside from Plath's poem, Mirror) is available either in the textbook or on the Literactive CD. This blog is a free forum - say what you want to say, to the best of your ability, as long as you remain polite and thoughtful. This is especially important when responding to others' blogs or ideas.
So, here's a prompt for those of you a little unsure where to start:
I personally am intrigued by Kincaid's use of the word slut in this book - especially after hearing the word read aloud in last Monday's class. The narrator (who was actually Kincaid) made the word sound beautiful. How is this word still used today? In common conversation, as insult, or even just as greeting between friends? Why do you think this word still holds the weight it does? Why do friends use this word to address each other if it still has such a negative connotation? What expectations is put upon those who are addressed as a "slut"?
