issues in outlawed Flashcards
what is the essay question
analyse the way a idea or issues have been treated in at least one text
paragraph 1
sexism
evidence from paragraph 1
“What’s happening?” I asked, but they both ignored me. … “This is going to have to do,” she said. “What’s happening?” I asked again.
And you,” he said looking at me- “I don’t even know what crime the judge will want to charge you with. If it wasn’t Easter week, you’d be dead by now.”
paragraph 2
objectification
evidence from paragraph 2
“at my husbands house my mother in law watched me all the time, like she might catch me in the act of which craft.”
“That day was the first time I had sex without thought of conceiving a child”
paragraph 3
racism
evidence from paragraph 3
Only then, and only after searching the bar for other men to serve, did Veronica turn to News, as though seeing her for the first time, and without the smile she’d put on for me
At first I was confused. Then I looked around the room and saw that nearly everyone in the bar - the other cowboys, the women giggling at their jokes, and Veronica herself - was white