First Essay Assignment
Feminism in Red Dog Red Dog
Narratives can have a social function. They might represent an imagined reality in order to highlight social inequalities that might not ordinarily be noticed and thus they call for change in real social relations. Choose either to “Do your own Work” or “Get Caught and Suspended” and consider how this narrative critiques the world it represents.
Red Dog Red Dog is a functional text written by Helen Simpson. It is based in the past. The story is written in a form of a diary entry, and there are several entries that are dated by Tom and Marilyn. The purpose of this novel is to transform the audience into different types of feminism in Red Dog Red Dog. It shows …show more content…
She does not perform her normative role as a gendered subject that has been ascribed to her by the society of the past in Red Dog Red Dog. Lane is described as a tough female, someone you do not mess with unless “you want to get fucked up” (Lane 173). Females such as Tom and Marilyn are typically expected to be delicate and fragile beings from the future, but Allysia does not ever ever embody these kinds of characters. A second instance is where Marilyn can be seen reading Divergent during her prescribed gendered role. That is when she will deliberate on whether or not to hit Elmer and Lillian on the Jerry Springer show in 1952. This detail conflicts with the time-space continuum as well as the gender stereotype that sees men as aggressors. Allysia runs the label Three One G with Justin, yet this detail does not lead us to question what is not normative. Instead, it makes us allowed to challenge every preconceived idea that we may have about women in Red Dog Red Dog. As readers, we should not try to justify violence based on our gender or what we assume is our …show more content…
This suggests, if it suggests anything at all, that Lane didn’t pay Simpon much attention to what he has written and he also did not start a punk record label with Allysia. After the Big Melt that took place during the 1950s in Vernon BC, Alice’s diary entries are all dated and are not too many sentences long. They are shorter than the book is long. This is especially true somewhere in the middle, when they become longer in length and sometimes shorter as to which they might only be two sentences long. Furthermore, the text doesn’t follow a standard format like an article or a letter, it is more of random. This suggests the idea that no one likes having run on sentences or incorrect grammar and at least a paper you find online can be sure to reinforce the idea that just sharing thoughts and feelings is useful for