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Intro: Summary of the single story TED talk
Thesis Idea: In the novels, The Bluest Eye and The House on Mango Street, A voice is given to those who are historically voiceless, as Minorities and those who are living in poverty, so they can tell their stories of hardship, friendship, and family. they use their voices to shatter stereotypes and show that their poverty is not the only thing that defines them.

The Bluest Eye: use pecolas story, contrast with Maureen in the ways they are treated based on looks, the importance of sharing these stories, the use of contrast between their real life stories and the dick and jane primers, the ideals of beauty, the ideas of the perfect home and family,economic status and its role, unattainable standards.

The House on Mango Street: her need/ want to get out, the role of women in the community, wanting to own her own house, how her views on leaving/ coming back, economic status and its role, idea of a perfect home, unattainable standards, subbmissive roles, femeninity, makeup, friends (sally).

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In Should Literature Be Useful by Lee Siegel,
the author observes, that reading fiction teaches students more empathy than that of the benifits of reading nonfiction but on the other hand research shows that nonfiction has more benefits than fiction. More specifically the author  claims, "The subjects who had read literary fiction either reported heightened emotional intelligence or demonstrated, in the various tests administered to them, that their empathy levels had soared beyond their popular- and non-fiction-reading counterparts," in other words, those who participated in the study who were given fiction did better and grew more intelectually than those who read nonfiction. on both ends of the study each researcher can argue that their side is correct. on the side of fiction they can argue that there are countless benefits to reading and learning through fiction whereas non fiction while still having benefits has less to do with character growth.
In conclusion, reading fiction leads to growth of the intellectual mind and emotional mind.

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Reading Literature Makes Us Smarter and Nicer

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Reading Literature Makes Us Smarter and Nicer

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In Reading Literature Makes Us Smarter and Nicer by Murphy Paul,
the author asserts, reading done on the screen does not do the same things for the cognative mind as reading a novel does. deep reading can help a person develope empathy alowing people to veiw the world through different perspectives. more specifically the author emphasizes that if we continue down the road of only reading electronically, "[readings] disappearance would imperil the intellectual and emotional development of generations growing up online," in other words, if we let children continue to only read what they see online, there could be a reduction of literature reading and evidently cognative development. deep reading has a trance like affect on the reader that online reading that doesn't give. without literature readig there would be a decline in reading all together.
In conclusion, the reading of literature is important to ones developement as a person and an intellectual.

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how realizing brotherhoods true motive and Tod Clifton's death led to a full understanding of what his grandfathers words meant.

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white men using African American boys as entertainment.

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Irony of the battle royal scene (good fight v. battle royal)

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The act of conforming to the stereotypes placed on him and how that led down to the events with all of the white characters in the novel

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how his grandfathers deathbed words shaped the events in his young adult and adult life

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the idea of wholeness and how that played into kingston's confusion growing up

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she manages to incorperate many different chinese stroies from legend and her mothers life that show a multitude of side of women's roles in china no sharing a single story

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in what way should she act: in the subservent way that women are traditionally expected to act in china or in the indepent way her mother seems to be tellling her to within the messages of her stories.

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Ideals of beauty: American Beautiful and chinese beautiful are different and which should she strive to be

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internal struggle between American side and Chinese side

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Narrative switches and she still wants to get out but wants to return and help others break out of the "circle" as she will

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doesnt want to be looked down apon because of economic status and because where she lives

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the women in the winows all want the same thing, freedom but feel stuck in what they know in a society where men control life.

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no longer wants to be stuck ina submissive role/ wants to get out and finally ahve control of something

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want a house that is "perfect" like the ones depicted in the media and literature

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want to escape the cycle of women in her community being trapped being controlled by a man

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holding beauty equal to worth is a damaging quality

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poverty and race vs. what we see in the media and in literature and how damaging those images can be to someone who cannot attain that

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beauty/ how well you match the standard of beauty equalling worth when most people don't fit in that standard

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the ideal beauty comes from the look of light skin and hair and blue eyes.

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wants the "perfect" single story life like that in the dick and jane primers