What should you include or exclude (for example, would you keep the narrator’s repeated “slut-shaming”?)?

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Option 1–Jamaica Kincaid, Girl: In “Girl,” the narrator gives–seemingly unsolicited–advice to a young girl. This advice ranges from directives on how to carry out her daily tasks to moral/sexual propriety. Write a post that mimics this short story: what advice do you think would be more appropriate for a contemporary setting? How would this advice be different if the addressee was a boy and not a girl? In composing your own version of the story, keep in mind that you have the opportunity to critique the narrator’s choices: what is the most useful advice to give you a younger person? What should you include or exclude (for example, would you keep the narrator’s repeated “slut-shaming”?)? You can choose to write advice to a girl that you think is more appropriate and useful; you can also write advice to a boy that examines what advice given to boys vs. girls prioritizes. (NB: Even though the story divides female labor and function in society along fairly traditional gender roles, you’re not limited to binary constructions of gender)

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