How does her experience connect with that of any of the women in the texts you wrote logs for? Choose one or more to make connections to, again referring to specific passages in the texts. What is your view of womens lives today?

Please choose from the following options for writing the final essay:
Look back over the texts you read and the logs you wrote for RL#5 and 6: The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin, Home Burial by Robert Frost, Trifles by Susan Glaspell, Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway, Cinderella and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by Anne Sexton. Then read Aunt Jennifers Tigers (1951) by Adrienne Rich (easily found online); Who is Aunt Jennifer? What does the poem tell you about her and about the lives of women in her situation? Refer to specific lines in the poem to draw her portrait. How does her experience connect with that of any of the women in the texts you wrote logs for? Choose one or more to make connections to, again referring to specific passages in the texts. What is your view of womens lives today? What has changed or stayed the same from the time these works were written? Before concluding your thoughts on this subject, watch the short film of women reading some of the poems from Mckayla Robbins book, We Carry the Sky. Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1pUYPS4dQg
Look back over the texts you read and the logs you wrote for the following works from RL#1,2, & 3: Still I Rise by Maya Angelou, The Giver (for Berdis) by James Baldwin, Let America Be America Again by Langston Hughes, Praise Song For the Day by Elizabeth Alexander and Sonnys Blues by James Baldwin. All of these works are by African American writers and each in different ways addresses the reality of racism in America; all were published well before the Black Lives Matter movement began; what do they contribute to our current attention to this issue? Choose one or more to discuss in detail. Then read two poems written in the last year in response to the pandemic and the protests against racial violence. They are Weather by Claudia Rankine and Say Thank You, Say Im Sorry by Jericho Brown; find them here: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/15/books/review/claudia-rankine-weather-poem-coronavirus.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/15/books/review/jericho-brown-say-thank-you-say-im-sorry-poem-coronavirus.html
What do they add to what has been written by the authors you have discussed? What do they say about our way forward in this world right now?

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