In the short stories "The Lady With The Pet Dog" by Chekov, "The Horse Dealer's Daughter" by Lawrence, and "Girl" by Kincaid, each author has included a female protagonist. Choose two out of the three stories that deal with the oppression of women. This oppression can center around the actions of other characters or the traditional gender roles placed upon women by society. What can you infer about the author's viewpoint of women through the context of the story? Use contextual evidence.
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The oppression of women manifests itself into traditional roles of society as you are expected to act accordingly and proper. There are two forces of oppression, one by the other characters in the story, or by society and their expectations. In Lawrence's "The Horse Dealer's Daughter," there is a poor man with one daughter, three sons, and a father. The mother past away, leaving the only daughter to keep the family, as all women should do in the eyes of society and the traditions. She had worked alone, "servantless in the big house," without help or gratitude from her, "ineffectual brothers" (725). The woman adhere to the social rules of society by keeping the house in pristine condition, and the pressures to amount to these limitless expectations, and constant verbal berating from her brothers all lead to her decision to attempt suicide, thus freeing her from the unfair roles of woman oppression in society. The apparent oppression of women is viewed in a different light in "Girl," by Jamaica Kincaid. In this story a mother tells her daughter how to adhere to the roles of society by teaching her manors. The pressures of society are enforced through the mother in this story as she teaches her how to iron her, "father's khaki pants," or to, "smile to some you don't like at all" (719). However, although she is demonstrating proper society manors, she states multiple times that her efforts are no use because she will act, "like the slut [she is] so bent on becoming" (719). The mother tries to instill the roles of the traditional society upon her daughter, but to her dismay, she knows her daughter will follow her own path in the more radical society she is raised in.
ReplyDeleteThe stories "The Lady with the Pet Dog" by Chekov and "Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid reveal women's oppression from of the demands of society. In "The Lady with the Pet Dog" Anna, the main female character, desires to be with her lover however she cannot be because she is already married and cannot get divorced. Society during the Victorian era had harsh restrictions and regulations. Anna couldn't divorce her husband because Anna would be deemed as a disgrace to herself and her community in which she would lose any respect and honor that society had placed on her. Therefore Anna is divided from her lover and oppressed because women could most certainly not move as freely through society as men could. Even when Dmitry, her lover, tried to visit her in her town she knew that this couldn't happen, even though it would break her heart, because society would look down upon her so she says, "We have lost our senses. Go away today...I implore you-People are coming this way!" (243). "Girl" by Jamacia Kincaid also displays women's oppression later during the post-modern era. In this short story the audience hears the girl's thoughts about he daily life. These thoughts are what she is expected to think according to society. Because to society a woman should be thinking about household chores, how to act in public, and how to appear best to her husband and her community. This girl is not only bombarded with these consuming thoughts, but also oppressed from the life that she would want to live. She says that she should, "wash the white clothes on Monday and put them in a stone heap" and to not "walk bareheaded in the hot sun" while she should," cook pumpkin fritters in a very hot sweet oil; soak your little cloths right after you take them off," (719). She is so concentrated on the life and questions that society demands that she has no time for her own life. For both authors Chekov and Kincaid I believe that they are addressing the issue of women's oppression because they disagree with it. They are conveying all the ugly reasons and details why women's oppression destroys lives. They show the sadness and hardships of both Anna and the girl because of their oppression from society.
ReplyDeleteLawrence's, " The horse Dealer's Daughter, and Kincaid's, " Girl" both have female main characters that deal with society in their own ways. in Kincaid's, Girl" the story is about a mother who is speaking to her daughter to warn her of how to behave in society. "always eat your food in such a way that it won't turn someone else's stomach; on Sundays try to walk like a lady and not like the slut you are so bent on becoming" women have to put on a facade to fit into society, and her mother doesnt want her to give in to the pressure and become a slut. She believes in today's society it is easy to give in and collapse around the expectations and become a slut. She warns her daughter not to "speak to wharf–rat boys, not even to give directions; don't eat fruits on the street—flies will follow you;" the fruit will draw attention to her in unwanted ways. making it appear as though she wants attention from men, but not just any attention but sexual sinful attention. the fruit is like the fruit that eve ate from the tree. IF you give into the fruit you are corrupt. The flies are heathens and men that she does not want attention from. One must learn how to behave in order to survive society's constant beating.
ReplyDeleteLawrence's, The horse Dealer's Daughter" deals with a family where there are three brothers and a man and his Daughter. the daughter takes on the responsibility of the mom or wife because her mother passed away. She is often not even noticed. 'If I was her, I should go in for training for a nurse,' said Malcolm, the youngest of them all. He was the baby of the family, a young man of twenty-two, with a fresh, jaunty museau., But Mabel did not take any notice of him. They had talked at her and round her for so many years, that she hardly heard them at all." She takes on the constant beating of her brothers waves and waves of verbal abuse and it eventually wears down the shore of her mental state. She lives in an isolated world that serves little to no meaning outside of taking care of the house. "Well, what in the name of fortune are you going to do? Say what you mean to do,' cried Fred Henry, with futile intensity.But she only averted her head, and continued her work. She folded the white table-cloth, and put on the chenille cloth.'The sulkiest bitch that ever trod!' muttered her brother." She does her job; household chores. She does them and does not stand up for herself. she loses touch with life, and has nothing to live for. this is a classic example of how society can beat down a person and take the fight from them. The doctor and her fall in love, or a sort of love. but even though this occurs she still feels she is not good enough. "And my hair smells so horrible,' she murmured in distraction. 'And I'm so awful, I'm so awful! Oh, no, I'm too awful.' And she broke into bitter, heart-broken sobbing. 'You can't want to love me, I'm horrible." The abuse she took from her family has been branded into her soul and she can not escape it. feeling trapped in society's ways and feeling as though she will never feel true happiness.
Women have a role to pursue in today's society. Whether or not they chose to purse it is their decision. but what are the consequences? is being the chess piece in a game going to make you happy? or is branching and and being your own piece in the world? both have consequences, one must choose their own path. Choose wisely for each will contain hardships and moments of struggle that one must overcome.
-will russell
In "Girl" by Kincaid and "The Lady with the Pet Dog" by Chekov, the female protagonist is clearly oppressed. The daughter in "Girl" must listen to her mother's constant instructions of how to be a lady. The daughter cannot even move a certain way without her mother telling her that she will become a slut of society. This oppression is overwhelming for the daughter but there is nothing she can do to get away from her mother except marry and she needs the skills her mother is teaching her once she is married which creates a win-lose situation. The mother wins because her daughter will be perfect in the eyes of society and reflects her parents wonderful work in raising their daughter while the daughter will continue to be oppressed once she is married because the post-colonial time period that Kincaid writes in has the man in the dominate role. By following her mother's instructions, the daughter will be able to become someone who they "trust in the bread store". In "The Lady with the Pet Dog", the wife is oppressed by her husband who views the female sex as the "inferior race" although he finds Anna ,the lady with the dog, to be quite enchanting. Though their love grows, woman had few rights back in that time period so Anna is unable to leave her husband to be with her new lover. This lack of acceptance of woman being able to divorce their husbands is a way of the husband having total control and oppressing the woman.
ReplyDeleteMany authors present stories about the oppression of the protagonist. Both Kincaid and Lawrence do this in the eyes of a female protagonist in "Girl" and "The Horse Dealer's Daughter".
ReplyDeleteIn "Girl", a mother is giving her child wisdom and advice, which she is to use throughout her lifetime. At this point in the child's life, she wants to find her identity but still cling tightly to her mother. The mother seems to have her daughter under her control because her continuous list of orders leaves no room for the daughter to respond. The mother also constantly warns her daughter about becoming a slut: "This is how to love a man, and if this doesn't work there are other ways, and if they don't work don't feel too bad about giving up" (720). The mother also tells her daughter how to "throw away a child" (720). The mother's attitude also explains the culture of the Caribbean Islands, since many girls often used prostitution as a means of living. At the end of the story the mother shares her definition of a powerful women, which she expects her daughter to become.
In "The Horse Dealer's Daughter", Mabel is a 27 year old girl who lives with her three brothers. Her mother died when she was a young girl, and her father abandoned their family. Mabel is seen as ugly and insignificant by her family, and she is referred to as a "bulldog" (721). Mabel is greatly affected by how she is used by her family. Her brothers only expect her to bring money into the household by her own means, but Mabel does not seem to live in the same world as her family. This is a label put on women by soceity, especially men, that states that women are only good for domestic work. She finds pleasure by going to her mother's grave: "There she always felt secure, as if no one could see her, although as a matter of fact she was exposed to the stare of everyone who passed along under the churchyard wall" (725). Mabel is almost being compared to a tombstone in a graveyard, which is seen on the outside but the body of the deceased is hidden from the world. This is the only way that Mabel feels she is satisfied and content with herself becuase she is in the company of her mother.
Chekov's "The Lady with the Pet Dog," and Jamaica Kincaid's "Girl" both present similar views of women and their roles in society but from different perspectives. Chekov's short story is about an affair between a man, Dmitri, and a young woman he meets on vacation named Anna. It is immediately apparent that Dmitri considers women to be objects. "If she is here alone without husband or friends it wouldn't be a bad thing to make her acquaintance," he says after he has seen her a few times (235). This shows that he views her as an object because he feels that as long as she is without a man or friends around, she is "up for grabs". It shows that he feels that once a man is with a woman, he "owns her." After Dmitri actually speaks to Anna, he lays in bed thinking about her and realizes that "there is something pathetic about her, though" (236). Dmitri is judging Anna - she is beautiful and pathetic, but he ultimately decides that her beauty outweighs her childlike, what he views as simpering nature. "Girl," by Jamaica Kincaid, is an account of how young women should behave from the perspective of a mother. "Try to walk like a lady and not like the slut you are so bent on becoming," she tells her daughter (719). In saying this, her mother probably has good intentions; she wants boys to respect her daughter, not look at her as an "easy" young girl, however, she is also inadvertently making her daughter ashamed of her burgeoning sexuality. Another telling piece of advice is "don't squat to play marbles, you are not a boy, you know" (719). The mother is advising her daughter not to do things that the boys do, not only because she is not a boy, but because boys do not want girls who try to be boys. At first, it is easy to judge Dmitri and the narrator of "Girl" as misogynistic and anti-woman, however, it is important to keep context, time frame, and intentions in mind.
ReplyDeleteThe opression of women is evident in "The Lady With Pet Dog" as well as "The Horse Dealer's Daughter." In "The Lady With the Pet Dog" the opression of Anna is shown through her role as a lover and a woman in society. In Russian society during the Victorian Era, women were seen as objects and were expected to act with decorum that their husbands' decide. Because they are considered the "inferior race" by the men in their lives, women are not privy to the same allowances in extra-marital affairs that men are given. The same principle of a double standard exsists in "The Horse Dealer's Daughter." Maybell goes through her life as "mindless and persistent". These adjectives reflect the broken self that women feel when they are not given a voice nor respected. Thus the feelings of the authors are presented through their tones and descriptions of the defeated women.
ReplyDeleteIn the two short stories “Girl” and “The Horse Dealer’s Daughter” included a female protagonist who deals with oppression based on her gender. However in “Girl” the main character is oppressed by her family, while in “The Horse Dealer’s Daughter” she is oppressed by what we, the reader, expect from her. In “Girl” by Kincaid the story is just one long sentence of basic instructions. Her mother is telling her how to act, so she doesn’t grow up and become a slut. While this can be perceived as society oppressing the mother into conforming her daughter, it is mainly the mother’s influence. The mother is molding her daughter into how she wants her to act and behave. This is revealed with the tone of the passage – straight orders. These orders are “woman jobs”; the mother tells her to “wash the white clothes…cook pumpkin fritters…iron your father’s khaki shirt”(719). Her mother is keeping her in line in hopes of preventing an outcome, that deep in her mind, she knows will result. The girl is going to act “like the slut [she is] bent on becoming”(719). The mother continuously pushes these ideals on her daughter in hopes that one day the oppression will keep her from becoming society’s whore. In “The Horse Dealer’s Daughter”, Lawrence uses a different method to show the oppression on the lonesome daughter throughout the short story. First he sets the story up like a fairy tale, the lonesome daughter who is badly treated by her family, only to be saved by her handsome lover in the end. This instantly shows the demeaning nature of the woman role because it is portraying her as a helpless damsel in distress. She is furthered oppressed by growing up in a house of all males. “The girl did not answer. I don’t know what else you can do, persisted Henry. Go as a skivvy... If I was her, I should go in for training for a nurse”(722). The brothers are toying with her as if she didn’t matter, and the ideas they are listing are typically “woman” jobs. Both the girl and the daughter in these two short stories are high oppressed by their family and a little by society.
ReplyDeleteIf we delve into the history of woman, we see they have played a very subordinate role in society, being molded by their husbands and even their own family’s. Although woman today are considered equals it is apparent that some woman still feel obligated to submit to their husbands instead of using their own voice. This concept of the subordination of women is found in many stories including Kincaid’s Girl and Chekov’s The Lady with the Pet Dog. Although very different, these stories focus on the oppression of a woman by a certain character.
ReplyDeleteIn the story Girl which is about a little girl being molded by her mother, Kincaid gives insight on the life of a daughter in around the 1900’s. The story emphasizes all that is expected of her as she matures into a woman by using repetition of the words “this is how” in statements like… “this is how you iron your father’s khaki pants so they don’t have a crease;… this is how you sweep a whole house;…this is how you set a table for dinner” (719). In this story the little girl is having “traditions shoved down her throat” by society and her mother and will most likely never be able to “have a voice”. As mentioned, another story which focuses on the repression of woman is “The Lady with the Pet Dog” by Chekov. In this story, rather than the woman being suppressed by a family member, she (who’s name is Anna) is forced to submit to her husband (Dimitri). Dimitri is Anna’s lover whom treats her, and all woman like an object rather than a human being, “It seemed to him that he had been sufficiently tutored by bitter experience to call them what he pleased, and yet he could not have lived without “the inferior race” for two days together” (235). This is a statement I find ironic because although he treats woman as though they are invisible, he cannot live without them. Nevertheless, because if the time period, Anna had to take Dimitri treating her like an object.
As shown both woman are highly repressed by the demands of traditions of society and family.
Feminism is a prominent theme throughout literature of all kinds, from novels to poems. This powerful theme is also present in short stories like "The Horse Dealer's Daughter" by D.H. Lawrence and "Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid. In "The Horse Dealer's Daughter," Lawrence tells the story of a girl named Mabel, who is actually the horse dealer's daughter. Mabel has run her family's household since her mother's death and upon learning of her family's dreary financial situation, Mabel must decide what to do with her life. This decision began her "independence" after the oppression she experienced in being the sole caretaker of her family. She visits her mother's grave and decides to end her misery with taking her own life. As her planned suicide draws closer, "...she seemed in a sort of ecstasy to be coming nearer to her fulfillment, her own glorification, approaching her dead mother, who was glorified," showing that women's duties in the time of the story, the early 1900's, were incredibly demanding (725). Although she is saved by the county doctor and ends up using her powerful feminine figure to lure him in for marriage and financial support, Mabel attempts to liberate herself from her oppressing womanly duties. Her desire to die and the doctor's saving her from this death show the reader that the author believes that woman have an important role in society in the home and cannot escape it, while women also have the power to command and demand by physical means.
ReplyDeleteIn "Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid, a mother rattles off instructions to her daughter regarding how to behave in society and what her required duties are as a woman of the house. The mother instructs her daughter "...how to sew on a button" and "...how [to] set a table for lunch," although the mother feels one of the most important lessons is "how to behave in the presence of men who don't know you very well," so she will not be mistaken for a slut, as becoming a slut is the worst happening in the eyes of the mother (719). The mother makes sure to drive the latter point to her daughter, as she does not want her precious daughter to become another woman working the street. This story, like that of Lawrence, emphasizes the demanding role of women in the household, while Kincaid expands on this by inferring that mothers play a key role in the upbringing of daughters, promoting feminism.
This femininity is evident through the long list of proper behaviors in "Girl" and the attempted suicide and later physical appeal of the feminine body in "The Horse Dealer's Daughter."
In “The Lady With The Pet Dog” by Chekov and “Girl” by Kincaid women are oppressed by their societies. In “The Lady With The Pet Dog” Anna is a married woman who has an affair with a man, Dmitry, whom she has just recently met. She feels dirty and ashamed afterward and is “troubled now by jealously and now by the fear that he did not respect her sufficiently” (239). Even though Anna was “bored” (235) with her marriage, she feels she must stand by her husband because she has agreed to be with him and confirmed this publically when they got married. Anna cannot allow herself to be happy with Dmitry because she cannot go against society’s rules. She loves Dmitry but she will not break her and her husband’s social contract. In “Girl”, the story is nothing but commands from the girl’s mother. She is completely consumed with all of the rules society has laid out for her. She can, or is expected to “wash” and “cook” and keep up the duties of the house (719). She is told that “this is how” she should do the household duties, with specific, straightforward directions, leaving no room for her to choose how she wants to get things done. She is also directed “don’t” do a list of things, and she is repeatedly warned to not “become…the slut [she is] so bent on becoming” (719). In both of these stories, the societies are forcing these women to submit to societal rules. This proves difficult, however, as the women resemble round pegs being forced into the square hole society has carved out for them.
ReplyDeleteThe theme of oppression of women is reflected in the both of the short stories, "Girl" by Kincaid and "The Lady with the Pet Dog" by Chekhov. In "The Lady with the Pet Dog", Chekhoc portrays the struggles between a man and a woman experiencing relationship problems. Anna Sergeyevna is the woman protagonist in the story. Dmitry Dmitrich Gurov asked, "Why should I stop respecting you, darling?", "You don't know what you're saying"(238). Dmitry does not have any respect for women and treats her as a new toy to play with. Chekhov was a close observer of people in ordinary situations who struggle to live their lives the best they can. This relflects the ideas put in to his stort story "The Lady with the Pet Dog".
ReplyDeleteIn Kincaid's "Girl", the female protagonist is the daughter. Her mother oppresses her with rules and instructions on how to be a lady. The mother tells her that, " and this is how to move quick so that it doesn't fall on you; this is how to make ends meet; always squeeze bread to make sure ;"(720). The mother has a defeatest attitude and tells her daughter that basically she has to do what is expected of her and not what she wants, and that she may have to settle for less or deal with unecessary things from people but it's just life and it's going to happen. The daughter is oppressed by the expectations of her mother but also society as well. The principles that the mother is trying to teach her is basically to please everyone else and not care about herself. She believes that pleasing society and living up to everyone else's expectations is more significant. For example the mother states, "this is how to hem a dress when you see the hem coming down and so to prevent yourself from looking like the slut I know you are so bent on becoming"(719). The mother obviously has absolutely no respect for her daughter and like the views of society, the daughter will never live up to her expectations either. Most likely the views of Kincaid do not parallel that of the mother's in the story, this is the reason she is adressing this issues throughout this story. Her works of literature reflect these ideas and are paralleled by an examination of rifts in mother- daughter relationships.
In the short story “Girl,” by Jamaica Kincaid, and the short story “The Lady with the Pet Dog,” by Anton Chekhov, both authors present a very strong opinion of women. In the short story “Girl,” Kincaid offers a very interesting style of writing from a very unique point of view. In the story, the reader is never actually given any information about the narrator or whom the narrator is, yet the narrator is clearly giving a specific set of lessons to a young woman. Kincaid clearly believes that women are suppressed. However, her writing brings home an even more specific belief about women: that women are expected to do so much, and get very little in return. Of course, it is a widely accepted “stereotype” that men have historically been the “breadwinners” and the person in the family to “put food on the table.” However, Kincaid makes it a point of hers to stress that women perhaps have a more stressful role in society, and yet they are given very little credit. After explaining all of the stressful duties of a typical woman during that time period, Kincaid writes at the end of the story, “this is how to bully a man; this is how a man bullies you; this is how to love a man, and if this doesn’t work there are other ways…” (720) In this simple phrase, Kincaid brings out the underlying feeling of society in this time: a woman’s life revolves around the man. And so, a woman does all of these tedious, tiring, stressful duties, and is expected to do them to perfection, and, at the end of the day, she must still recognize that the man is still the one with power over her. In the short story “The Lady with the Pet Dog,” Chekhov makes one very profound statement at the beginning of the story that really should jump out at the reader. He says, “She walked alone, always wearing the same beret and always with the white dog; no one knew who she was and everyone called her simply ‘the lady with the pet dog’” (235). This immediately brings out the fact that Chekhov believes that many people in society don’t really know the true personality of a woman because everything is so uniform. It seems that every woman has the same roles in society, the same routine, and that the only role of a woman is to look up to the man she is supposed to provide for.
ReplyDeleteOppression of women is a major theme in literature. Although the United States has legally given equality to women, there are still discrepancies amongst the degree of equal opportunity, and many other cultures around the world still do not impartially view the female race, as women are seen as more of material possessions. Example pieces of literature that illustrate the oppression of women are “The Lady with the Pet Dog” by Anton Chekhov and “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid.
ReplyDeleteIn Kincaid’s short story, a daughter finds herself trapped by the restricting walls of society that are enforced and instilled by her mother. Constantly harked by her mother to “behave in the presence of men” (719), “smile to someone you like completely” (719), and “hem a dress… so you prevent yourself from looking like [a] slut” (719), the protagonist finds herself being tugged by the strings that her mother has wrapped around her from a young age. The daughter finds herself at a breaking point. After she is told the miniscule empowering advice from her mother about “how to bully a man” (720), she stands at a dividing line of taking a leap into a new world of marriage, but she must question the significant degree of difference in this new life, because in her society, spouse superiority lies within the palms of the male’s hands.
In the short story by Chekhov, a woman is forced contain her true passion, and abide by the confinements of her marriage. Restraining her ultimate desires for freedom and love once the wife realizes “she was bored there” (235) in her state of marriage, she is forced to surrender to the superiority of the male figure: her husband. Not having the freedom to express and follow through with emotions shows the true suppression of the female race in this story.
@Ciara Viola: We love how you told of the Girl standing “at a dividing line of taking a leap into a new world of marriage” it truly shows how she was at a crossroads in her life, and beginning to make her own decisions to better her life, which was the point of the story for us.
ReplyDelete@Mearsb: your point of veiw is original and honest. Women do recieve far too little credit in the world, for the strenuous tasks assigned to them.
@Sarah Bass: very clever analogy for Dymitry, as he treats the women like toys, just as a dog treats a new chew toy, with initial excitement then waning attention. This relates back to the title as well as an undertone that men are dogs.
@Virginia Cox: We like how you took The Lady with the pet dog from the women’s pov instead of dymitry’s. She cannot break out of societies rules is an excellent point. As most took it from a character oppressng character story you saw it as society vs. the woman. Very original.
@Dan Wilson: the part of your comment that struck me deeply was about the mother’s role in the upbringing of her daughter, and her promotion of feminism. However, we believe it could have been taken a step farther to dicuss the lack of feminism in the household, and the oppression the mother could have recieved growing up.
@Allison: an excellent analysis of girl, especially of the “molding” by the mother. But in The Lady With The Pet Dog why do you feel Anna allowed dimitri to treat her as an object? Society, Dimitri’s personality or another reason?
@Ray Ramirez: love the point of “dual oppression” in “Girl”. First society to the mother then the mother to her daughter. Also the idea that the mother knows her demands are futile because her daughter will eventually make her own decisions is excellent.
-Margaret and Emily
@JBrink: We liked how you described Mabel's attempted suicide as a means of freedom from the oppression inflicted upon her by her family. It emphasizes the severity of the pressure she feels to meet her family's expectations.
ReplyDelete@Lindsay: We liked how you mentioned the "harsh restrictions and regulations" of the victorian era. It shows how society really prevented Anna from being able to divorce her husband.
@RussellW: We liked how you tied in the story of Adam and Eve and the forbidden fruit with Kincaid"s "Girl". Do you think that the apple could also refer to her desire to live a different life than the life that her mother has instructed her to live?
@Haley: We liked how you referred to Anna's inability to divorce her husband as a "lack of acceptance" by society. The only thing really holding Anna back is the fact that it would be socially unacceptable for a woman to divorce her husband.
@Christiana Vastardis: We liked how you tied in Caribbean culture with the story. We had no idea that it was common for young girls in the Caribbean to turn to prostitution for money. This could certainly be the reason that the mother in the story continuously insinuates that her daughter will become a slut.
@Erin Whiteman: We liked how you explored Dmitry's view of women as objects. It is difficult to think that even Anna's lover views her solely as an object.
@Jessie Gruber: Women without a voice certainly do seem to be broken and we think that Mabel is a great example of a broken women as a result of the way that her family treats her.
Wonderful prompt and excellent responses as a whole! I love seeing the continuing use of textual evidence along with the use of "weaving" - awesome to see that happening! Keep up the strong analytical writing! Margaret and Emily, you had an effective BLOG and posted specific and halpful comments to the students! Superb job!
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