"Saturday Night": What does the dialogue in this story do for you as a reader? What is the tone of the story? Janie thinks, "She couldn't really believe that the whole time they'd known each other his penis was right there with him, in his pants, right there. At school!" (27) How did you react to these lines? How does Janie react to her being labeled on the boys' Excel spreadsheet, "Body fine but face meh"? How did you react to it? What do you think about the conclusion to the story?
I believe this would be a feminist text in some aspects. In the story the example of the spread sheet Janie talks about how the words in the book made her feel. " but it galled her still, the power of those words, and it embarrassed her, how bad she'd felt ". Janie is a young girl fully self aware of how this is not the ed of the world but still felt invalidated by how men saw her. The dialogue in the story do for me as a reader puts me in the thoughts of Janie and her emotions. I myself am a teen girl and feel the same way about options on my looks the thoughts are something I can't control.the tone of the story seems like a act of rebellious and just teen angst.
My reaction to the lines "She couldn't really believe that the whole time they'd known each other his penis was right there with him, in his pants, right there. At school! (27) is suppressed and shooked. I didn't expect for Janie to say these lines but it gave a new perspective of how it is to be a curious teen girl.The reaction Janie have to the label she got from the exec spreadsheet made her insecure with herself. If I was in her shoes I would feel exactly the same and degraded.
I agree with ur comment on line 27 because many young girls are trying to understand everything and are figuring out themselves and feelings.
ReplyDeleteNice response, Marinda. I think it's an important point about how Janie was degraded. It's not just that these teen boys judged her based on her looks, something that all humans do, to a certain extent. It's that they made it public, circulated it in a document for all to see. You could argue that it's an act of violence.
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