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Intro
-single stories
-labels don't ask our permission before attaching themselves
-both metaphorically and physically they're hard to remove, especially when that perforated border has been broken and it's been sealed in place for decades/centuries
-fate... how do we respond
-2 books: Mango and Woman Warrior

Thesis
As unfortunate and unfair as it, our identities are stuck to us whether we have granted its permission or not. Therefore, it is important to both embrace these labels and read multicultural literature to understand the incomplete stories that are not our own.

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-first part of quote from mango... they don't know us
-"Those who don't know any better come into our neighborhood scared. They think we're dangerous. They think we will attack them with shiny knives. They are people who are lost and got here by mistake...

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-second part of quote from mango...shakety shake.. and it goes and goes
conclusion: how do we break this cycle? well maybe its writing like kingston and cisneros... but if we can't write we can read! so that one day: quote: our power will be our own (mango)
-But watch us drive into a neighborhood of another color and our knees go shakity-shake and our car windows get rolled up tight and our eyes look straight. Yeah. That is how it goes and goes. (28)"

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In Reading Literature Makes Us Smarter and Nicer by Annie Murphy Paul, Paul argues that people are morally and socially better after reading literature. More specifically, she states that people who read fiction are better able to understand others and empathize in order to understand different perspectives. Additionally, Paul believes that deep reading's disappearance would "imperil the intellectual and emotional development" of future generations. In conclusion, Annie Murphy Paul claims that we are cheating future generations by limiting their knowledge of the power of reading and "an enlightening experience that will enlarge them as people."

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In Should Literature Be Useful? by Lie Siegel, Siegel argues that "fiction's lack of practical usefulness is what gives it its special freedom." More specifically, he claims that the people who respond most to fiction already have a higher degree of empathy to begin with. Moreover, reading allows us to fill the emptiness that we already possess. Additionally, Siegel states that the nature of fiction is the very reason that so many people equate it with imagination. In conclusion, Lie Siegel believes that fiction's properties are "countless and unquantifiable."

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https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Hi2NaXlICHdC5tHYKAY6GAtjA3wskoC6

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The House on Mango Street Single Stories

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The House on Mango Street Single Stories

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2. Another single story is that Mexicans are seen as foreign.

In "Those Who Don't," Esperanza explores this idea only to find that she and other Mexicans think the same away about other groups of people. In other words, although even if we've been on the receiving end of stereotyping, we still do it simply because we are human.

Quote: "Those who don't know any better come into our neighborhood scared. They think we're dangerous. They think we will attack them with shiny knives. They are people who are lost and got here by mistake... But watch us drive into a neighborhood of another color and our knees go shakity-shake and our car windows get rolled up tight and our eyes look straight. Yeah. That is how it goes and goes. (28)"

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2. Another single story is that silence is associated with weakness and insanity.

While this is confirmed in some of the stories Kingston tells, it is far from the truth in other stories. It is also necessary to unveil the reason as to why the women are silenced and why they then look weak or go insane.

Quotes:
"The other Chinese girls did not talk either, so I knew the silence had to do with being a Chinese girl. (166)"

"Not all of the children who were silent at American school found voice at Chinese school.(168)"

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2. Another single story is that African Americans have the power to decide their own fate. If they want to be successful, they have the power to be.

This is incomplete because while this is somewhat true, African Americans are always either a step behind or being manipulated in some way.

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"To Whom It May Concern," I intoned. "Keep This Nigger-Boy Running. (33)"

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2. Another single story is that African American girls want white features.

This story is incomplete because African American girls don't necessarily want the white features; they want to feel loved. In their eyes sometimes, it seems that feeling loved can only happen after receiving white features.

Quotes:
"Traced the turned-up nose, poked the glassy blue eyeballs, twisted the yellow hair. I could not love it. But I could examine it to see what it was that all the world said was lovable.(21)"

"We were lesser. Nicer, brighter, but still lesser. (74)"

"Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another- physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion. In equating physical beauty with virtue, she stripped her mind, bound it, and collected self-contempt by the heap. (122)"

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1. One single story is that African Americans have the power to beat the system and be on the same level as blacks.

However, the issue is that they appear to have power but they are unaware of their compromised positions.

Quotes:
"The only ones I even pretend to please are big white folk, and even those I control more than they control me. (142)"

"I had to be strong and purposeful to get where I am I had to wait and plan and lick around... Yes, I had to act the nigger! (143)"

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1. One single story is that African American women are simple minded and love helping and taking care of people.

This is a positive stereotype to a degree. The negative side is that whites fail to realize that black mothers don't even get to fully love their own children.

Quotes:
"The familiar violence rose in me. Her calling Mrs. Breedlove Polly, when even Pecola called her mother Mrs. Breedlove, seemed reason enough to scratch her. (108)"

"As Pecola put the laundry bag in the wagon, we could hear Mrs. Breedlove hushing and soothing the tears of the little pink-and-yellow girl. (109)"

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1. One single story is that because of Chinese culture, women are very limited to individuality and freedom.

Through Kingston's writing, she gives the Chinese more freedom than they could ever imagine.

Quotes:
"Here is a story my mother told me, not when I was young, but recently, when I told her I also talk story. The beginning is hers, the ending, mine. (206)"

"She said I would grow up a wife and a slave, but she taught me the song of the warrior woman, Fa Mu Lan. I would have to grow up a warrior woman. (20)"

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The House on Mango Street Single Stories

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The House on Mango Street Single Stories

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1. One single story is that women are powerless in her society.

While this is somewhat true, Esperanza realizes that this concept is layered when it comes to making her own decision. She must make decisions about living as a sexual object, being trapped by an abusive husband and kids, and keeping her own freedom.

Quotes:
"Four who grew despite concrete. Four who reach and do not forget to reach. Four whose only reason is to be and be. (75)"

"I am tired of looking at what we can't have. (86)"

"She is the one who drives the men crazy and laughs them all the way. her power is her own. She will not give it away. (89)"