Please do not plagiarize there is no right or wrong answer just want to know your own thoughts of the reading in your own words.. Please don’t plagiarize she will know if you did please use your own words and thoughtss when answering the questions below after reading the pdf that I have uploaded..Please don’t plagiarize!!! Please read the assignment clearly!!1 Please don’t plagiarize !!!! Read pages 4-50
General Instructions:
For this response, please choose to answer THREE out of the six question options. Choose whichever three that you are most interested in answering.
Please respond to the THREE questions, thoroughly and thoughtfully, in a minimum of two paragraphs (roughly 200 words). Be sure to answer all components of the questions that you choose. I will read your responses and grade them based on a score of 0-5 points (please see the document and lecture on the instructions for the discussion board post for more details about how I calculate your grade). Please remember to support your points with textual evidence (direct quotes from the text).
Questions:
Choose THREE out of the six to answer:
1. On pages 8-9 the narrator (Saeed Jones) writes about his first time talking with his mom about her gay friend. He states: “I could feel the word gayor maybe the words conspicuous absencevibrating in the air between us.” What do you think that Saeed means by this? How/why do you think that he and his mom couldn’t actually speak the word out loud?
2. On pages 19-25, the narrator (Saeed Jones) describes the way he was treated by his grandmother and others at his grandmother’s Evangelical Christian church. In what ways is Saeed made to feel shame and judgement? How is this related both to his sexual orientation and his religion?
3. On page 27, the narrator (Saeed Jones) writes: “You never forget your first ‘faggot.’ Because the memory, in its way, makes you. It becomes a spine for the body of anxieties and insecurities that will follow, something to hang all that meat on.” What do you think that Saeed means when he says that hearing this homophobic insult actually “makes” him? (remember to look for context clues in other parts of the text near this quote). What do you think is so tragic about that?
4. On page 29, the narrator (Saeed Jones) writes :
“Being black can get you killed.
Being gay can get you killed.
Being a black gay boy is a death wish.
And one day, if youre lucky, your life and death will become some artists new ‘project.’ ”
How does this quote illustrate intersectionality, the term that I discussed in my lecture for this week? What do you think Saeed means in that last line of his statement, that his life will become part of art if he’s lucky? (remember to look for context clues in other parts of the text near this quote).
5. On page 30 the narrator (Saeed Jones) talks about how the girls in his high school class responded to hearing the tragic story of Matthew Shepard, a gay man who was brutally murdered, versus how the boys responded. Why do you think that the boys responded differently? In what ways does this part of the text illustrate how men are socialized (conditioned/influenced from birth) to think about gayness? How does this passage also illustrate conceptions and pressures that black men face in order to appear “masculine”? How/why do you think those pressures contribute to homophobia amongst black men?
6. On page 44, the narrator (Saeed Jones) describes a time when he went to Dallas and experienced what it is like to finally be in a place where being gay is acceptable. He writes: “All I needed to do was look around and see that gay people here didnt appear to be scared, ashamed, hiding, or dying.” How is this space different from the spaces that Saeed lived in before going to Dallas? What do you think Saeed is trying to say here about the important of LGBTQ positive communities and spaces? In particular, why does Saeed mention that he is surprised to see that gay men here are not dying? (recall Saeed’s earliest exposure to gay literature and what was emphasized in those texts at the library).
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