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Thesis: The single story of how an American should look and be like is not an accurate representation of all Americans and this single story has effected other races who differ from that story in how they see themselves. The Woman Warrior and The House on Mango Street are both American center stories that contrast from the classical white Dick and Jane story. These stories tell the different aspects to being an American is to them and that is is different from the single story of a traditional white American.

(Should I add something about how the women in both of these novels find their voice and liberate themselves? I don't know how that would connect to my original thesis though... perhaps the idealized perfect white man instead of like Caucasians in general?

Woman Warrior: I would explain how her Chinese roots are a part of her American identity. The American history is one of diversity however that is a concept unknown to Kingston as she tries to be an "American" type of pretty and alters herself to be fitting of traditional american values.

House on Mango Street: I would explain how the single story of the glorified white complexion effected the way she sees herself. She tries to reject where she came from. To reject her history, her childhood, and basically her culture to be normal. To escape that oppression to find her sense of liberation, but she can never really forget Mango Street)

(I'm struggling to connect in Mango Street b/c i guess she doesn't try to alter her personality I mean other than rejecting her neighborhood and like breaking free of male dominance)

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The author argues that reading is good because it makes people into more effective socially and develops empathy in a person. Furthermore, the author states that Empathy is useful to understand others’ feeling and emotions. People who can recognize them “can grasp another person’s feelings in an instant [and] act on them.” He continues to argue that empathy can impact people’s generosity, charity and self- sacrifice. The author states that fiction gives the reader more freedom. Fiction appeals to the imagination and that may be why people have named this type of literature dangerous, redemptive, and empowering. He concludes by saying fiction uses the reader’s imagination to understand layers of meaning.

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The author begins the article by talking about Raymond Mar, a psychologist, argues that reading fiction allows more people to feel empathy and see from the character’s point of view. The author continues to describe further experiments and research that has revealed that as more kids are immersed in more stories, they acquire the ‘“theory of mind’ or the mental model of people’s intentions. The author explains how deep reading is vital for emotional and intellectual development. Deep reading is a slow and cognitive laboring task that limits the reader to be fully immersed to truly understand the text. The author states that this enables more people to understand metaphors and picture events in real life. This may require more effort however, “ the ability to read must be painstakingly acquired by each individual.” Protected from distractions, the author proclaims that the reader achieves a fluent decoding of words that enriched their experience.

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"he fails to understand the simple facts of life. Understand. Understand? It's worse than that. He registers with his senses but short-circuits his brain. Nothing has meaning...He's invisible, a walking personification of the Negative, the most perfect achievement of you dreams, sir! The mechanical man!" pg 94

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All our work had been very little, no great change had been made. And it was all my fault. I'd been so fascinated by the motion that I'd forgotten to measure what it was bringing forth I's been asleep, dreaming." pg 444

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"Discipline is sacrifice. Yes, and blindness." pg 475

The Brotherhood forces the narrator to submit to them, and let them use his voice for their own purpose. He is blind from realizing this.

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The narrator is educated to submit to the rich white men to pay for the school. In the beginning of the novel, he truly believes that there is no problem between white and black men.

He is being used as he joins The Brotherhood. They claim to help the African American struggles in society, but they truly have their own agenda. However the Narrator, is blind to see this at first.

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African American

Southern

School - white washed, white- funded, ideas of freedom is not truly free

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The single story is one of where black men is less than and less powerful than the white man. In this book, the narrator submits under the white man's rules.

Another single story is one that African Americans are less educated or not educated "correctly."

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"The Thing to fear was the Thing that made her beautiful, and not us.

Pecola has learned the single story and singles herself out as not being the white girl with blue eyes. She believes that she isn't even an adequate person compared.

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"He does not see her, because for him there is nothing to see." pg 48

The shopkeeper doesn't see her identity as a person/American. He has heard the one story and she does not

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"They stayed there because they believed they were ugly." pg 38

This is an example of how the one story of an American effects others who do not look similar to that comparison.

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Pecola hates her appearance and faces racial struggles with being African American. She goes down a path of self hatred.

Pecola's father goes through his own path as white men hurt and forever impacted his life especially with women.

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African American

Female

Young Kid

** Pecola struggles to accept her natural brown eyes. She craves to be like the normal white girl who gets treated better, and because of that she wants those blue eyes.

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The single story the author is replying to is the idea of the one story of Americans. Proper Americans are white with blue eyes, but the main characters in the Bluest Eye are examples of a different types of American.

Another single story is the abuse African Americans get from others especially Caucasians.

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"those who don'y know better come into our neighborhood scared. they think we're dangerous." pg 28

"People who live on hills sleep so close to the stars they forget those of us who live too much on earth." pg 8

From the outside looking in, this is where the one story applies to our lives. People take one glance and see danger without even know the people who live in that neighborhood.

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"born like me in the Chinese year of the horse - which is supposed to be bad luck if you're born female - but I think this is a Chinese lie because the Chinese, like the Mexicans, dont't like their women strong." pg 10

"I have inherited her name, but i don't want to inherit her place by the window." pg 11

"Her power is her own. She will not give it away. I have begun my own quiet war." pg 89

She is not willing to be limited by a man. Her life is her own and does what she want with it to stay free.

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"I knew then I had to have a house. A real house. One I could point to." pg 5

She wants to break that one story of her family's financial history. She's willing to work hard to own a house of her ow

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The different versions of a single story is represented in the four women Esperanza know and how they are all trapped in their own way. Esperanza thinks about what she truly wants in life and it is not that. She   breaks of from the one story to make it her own.

A person cannot generalize a whole race by one story or stereotype. Esperanza goes beyond the one story.

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Cisneros reveals different aspects of Esperanza's identity. Esperanza life is a blend between her Mexican life and American life. The idea of multiple names and languages demonstrate that Esperanza has a unique American life.

As the book progresses, she demonstrates further that despite her financial status, she will one day have a house of her own through her hard work.

Additionally, she will not be like other women and look out of the window. She will make a future for herself limited by no man.

Mexican
Female
Family
Young Adolescent

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Much like the Chinese, Mexicans are seen as immigrants who steal jobs from the white man. They become escape goats for the failures of the U.S.

Cisneros writes about a poor Hispanic Mexican girl trying to find her identity. Women in Mexican culture are seen to less than, and are obedient to their husband. Cisneros goes beyond the one story of a less privileged young girl.

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"Shine floodlight into dark corners: no ghosts." pg 204

In the end, she finally embraces what makes her different than everyone else, and realizes she is her own type of American. An American nonetheless.

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"I knew the silence had to do with being a Chinese girl." pg. 166

"You can see the disgust on American faces looking at women like that. It isn't just the loudness. It is the way Chinese sounds, chingchong ugly, to American ears" pg 171

Kingston struggles to embrace her Chinese American identity and faces a problem with double identity.

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"If I made myself American-pretty so that the five or six Chinese boys in the class fell in love with me, everyone else - the Caucasian, Negro, and Japanese boys - would too." pg 12

"We American-Chinese girls had to whisper to make ourselves American-feminine." pg 172

There is no specific example of what a traditional American should be like. Kingston details herself modifying her personality to be more American -like to fit in.

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Kingston reveals in herself that it was hard for her to find her own identity. She thought of herself as ugly, clumsy, and quiet. However, she is much more than these things. She eventually sees herself as an American no different that the people around her.

There is no one way an American should look and sound like. Each story Kingston writes about how Moon Orchard, Brave Orchard, and inevitable herself, ends up in the country the United States. Kingston is an American.

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Kingston reveals different aspects of identity in herself, her aunt, and her mother.

Her unknown aunt story depicts family isolation and the strict duties of a Chinese woman. Her No Name aunt is a story of bravery that focuses on the Chinese sense of family honor.

Brave Orchid's story is one of hard work, sacrifice, and bravery. She did not wait for her husband to come back; she made a name for herself.

Asian American
Female
Young Adolescent
Family Dynamic - family oriented, strict mother, better older sister

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Kingston is responding against the one story of Chinese Americans and immigrants. In the 1850s, Chinese immigrants were seen as foreigners who stole jobs from white men. The Chinese were to blame, and in effect, there was an anti-Chinese movement.

While this is one story of Chinese immigrants moving to America for money, there are so many other stories that make the Chinese so unique. They are not just people to pity and blame.

Another single story is the idea that Chinese women are quiet, weak, and need a man to survive.