After you have finished reading, questioning, annotating, and using your references, type a response of 400 words. For your response, select one of the literary theories you learned about that you have not written about previously (or two interconnected ones, if you prefer) and write a reflection that interprets the story through the lens of that literary theory.

Initial Post (400 words)
After you have finished reading, questioning, annotating, and using your references, type a response of 400 words. For your response, select one of the literary theories you learned about that you have not written about previously (or two interconnected ones, if you prefer) and write a reflection that interprets the story through the lens of that literary theory.
One Reply (250 words)
Read through the initial posts of your peers and select one post to respond to. Acknowledge your peer’s ideas and insight and add on to them with additional commentary in line with the literary theory of focus. You can suggest further supporting details or facts (such as a quote or scenario from the story or insightful research), offer a new or different perspective, and/or explain how the particular literary theory of discussion connects to the other stories we read for the class.

I have posted the reading and the literary theories. Also below is a the student work that I need to write a reply to.

“Sausage” is about a Somalian woman living in Italy. It starts off with a woman purchasing several pounds of sausages. I thought that she was going to have some sort of barbecue with others, but she herself, doesn’t know why she is getting them and doesn’t know what to do with them. Prior to boiling them, she thinks about fingerprints. That word kept coming up throughout the story and has led me to think it could represent two identities: Somalian and Italian. Her identity as a person of color, and looking foreign as people claimed, “These foreigners are ruining Italy,’’ and I feel people’s eyes stuck to me like bubble gum.”’ (5) This shows that people are treating her as an outsider. Her other identity as Italian, she tries to fit in along receiving her Italian passport. She thinks about the cruel history and the hate towards people of color. That lead her to start boiling them, thinking she deserved them. After boiling them, pick out a nice plate for it, ready to be eaten. Ready to take a bite, she vomited before putting it inside of her mouth. She questions it as if it was a mistake, “What if it was all a mistake?” (6), realizing her mistake. That got to me thinking, that sausage could represent her because at first, she bought the sausages not knowing why, similar to her trying to be Italian, ‘why do I even try?’. Her boiling it (the heat), shows her anger towards the cruel history, which I don’t blame her. She does not eat it, regretting her decisions, representing as ‘why am I doing this?’ She throws them away and watches t.v, trying to forget about it until her phone rang, telling her that she has passed the civil service exam. To my understanding from Google, it’s a test for people who’s applying for civil service jobs. Feeling happy, she gets up and cleans up her vomit, showing that there’s good in life.

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