{"id":8741,"date":"2023-03-06T15:58:11","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T15:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/reading-literature-in-cultural-and-histrical-context\/"},"modified":"2023-03-06T15:58:11","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T15:58:11","slug":"reading-literature-in-cultural-and-histrical-context","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/reading-literature-in-cultural-and-histrical-context\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Literature in Cultural and Histrical Context"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;1. The short story &#8220;Senior Picture Day&#8221; (page 51) begins with the sentence: &#8220;Sometimes I put two different earrings in the same ear.&#8221;  In&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>the context of the story, what might &#8220;two different earrings&#8221; symbolize?  On page 53, Terri and the narrator discuss the difference between being Mexican and Californian.  In what ways is the narrator both? <\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>2. What standard of beauty is the narrator of &#8220;Senior Picture Day&#8221; trying to achieve by pinching her nose?  Can you think of any attempts on the part of women in our society to conform to a standard of beauty that is not natural for them? In what ways does Terri&#8217;s life also fail&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>to conform to standards of perfection?  What does that prove?\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Reading attached&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;1. The short story &#8220;Senior Picture Day&#8221; (page 51) begins with the sentence: &#8220;Sometimes I put two different earrings in the same ear.&#8221; In&nbsp; the context of the story, what might &#8220;two different earrings&#8221; symbolize? On page 53, Terri and the narrator discuss the difference between being Mexican and Californian. In what ways is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[186],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/8741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/8741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=8741"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=8741"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=8741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}