Analyze the gender norms, roles, and patriarchal behaviors on display in in Junot Diaz’s “The Cheater’s Guide to Love.” Use bell hooks’ “Understanding Patriarchy” and recall her arguments about the effects of patriarchy on men and women. Identify any of the patriarchal ideas or behaviors hooks writes about that are also on display in “The Cheater’s Guide to Love.”
Explain how they can be seen in in Yunior, his fiance and any of the other women, Elvis, and environment they live in (HINT: These can be the individual topics for your body paragraphs). Your thesis will be the answer to the following questions: “
Based on your reading of hooks and Kincaid, what POINT are you trying to make about Gender Norms, roles, or patriarchy?
Why is it important to examine the patriarchal ideas and behaviors on display in “Girl?” and explain how they can be seen Your thesis will be the answer to the following question: “What takeaway do you have based on your reading of “The Cheater’s Guide to Love?” Why is it important to examine the patriarchal ideas and behaviors on display in “The Cheater’s Guide to Love?”
Keep the following in mind to help you develop your ideas: 1)Who is the Speaker?
2)What is their intent?
3)What kind of masculine patriarchal traits do the characters show?
4)How would bell hooks explain the patriarchal behaviors on display?
5)Word choice, tone, punctuation, and any other rhetorical devices you may notice.
6)Look for parallels between hooks’ arguments in any themes, events, or character traits in either reading.
