EN218 Lecture Notes - Jamaica Kincaid, Semicolon, Demonstrative
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How political systems shape identities before you"re aware that your identity is being shaped for you: manipulation by political systems on your identity by using language. How does your grammatical part of speech allow kincaid to make an argument about powerlessness: semicolon. Daughter has no time to interject limited response time. Indoctrinating this girl on how to become a good woman. How deeply internalized these values have become because of semicolon: imperative verb tense. Try to walk like a lady condescending. Performance suggests that gender identity is not innate. Sense of self isn"t just made by you it"s constructed by other people. Identity and performance are not equal/the same thing this girls is going to fall short: anaphora. Demonstration of rules that women have to follow. Extremely limiting, because you cannot go against what is being said. This behavior will turn into moral upstanding. Other people will think about you as a good human being.
