When reading over the assigned readings for class this Monday, there were little aspects to each one that stuck out to me. For Allyson Chloe’s I really liked the fantasy aspect of her story with aliens, and with the main character Lyra I really liked how we saw her take a confident and strong stance as independent in her school and home setting. With Kate’s readings, I thought the part where the lesbian couple was talking about the “man” and “woman” in lesbian relationships/sex, it made me wonder about that in real life too. I feel like it is often you see lesbian couples where one woman presents herself in a feminine way, while their partner represents herself in a more masculine way. I always felt like this was a topic that wasn’t really my place to even have an opinion on, because I am not lesbian, but maybe that isn’t necessarily the case, as long as straight people are respectful to wondering and even asking about these gender binaries in queer relationships. With Natalie’s reading, I focused on her question about when we see the most emotion out of Elizabeth, and I definitely would answer that with the endings of the assigned readings, where we see her talking with her family, there is comparison, and we see more of her internal monologue. Lastly, with Jazmyn’s reading, it has been years since I have discovered “The Hate U Give”, and I still cannot get over Hailey’s comment in the basketball game. Analyzing it again as an adult and seeing the racial connection, the body insecurity connection, and the grieving connection all behind that comment, makes me even more frustrated as a reader that Hailey would ever say that.
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