- Why does Ashley become friends w/ She and why do her other friends, esp. Lily, have a problem w/ this?
- Why does no one seem to know She's real name is Evelyn. Even Ashley calls her by the wrong name long after they're hanging out.
- What do you make of that rape scene w/ the apples (pp 107-109)?
- This is what we would call an experimental play. It is told non-chronologically, it's got actors playing multiple characters, scenes shift out and into other scenes, the play goes from realism to fantasy and back again, etc. Can you make connections between this play and other "difficult," experimental, or weird literature that we've read this term? (Some examples: "The Mushroom Queen," "Scream (Or Never Minding)," "The Antique Blacks." Can you name others?)
- When you can tell a story or write a poem or essay any way you want, why would you choose to write it in a way that might be so weird that it's difficult for your readers to understand your point? Another way to ask this question: If your message is so important (in this case, rape culture), then why would you risk having people misunderstand that message by writing something complicated?
Saturday, December 2, 2017
She Eats Apples and finishing up
In addition to previous questions (which I think we can further explore), I'd like us to consider a few others:
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Ashley becomes friends with "She" because "she" is there for, unlike Lily were she is talking to Ben. Lily has a problem with this because Lily doesn't like the fact that Ashley has been hanging out with "she". Lily thinks "she's" a slut and that Ashley is getting information from "she". On page 107-109 when Ben rapes Evelyn, he uses the apple which was the love potion to force her to eat the apple, so he can seduce her and forcefully rape her. When I read this part I was disgusted, the fact that he made her eat the apple so that he can have what he wants. Group activities worked best for me, when it came down to getting help for my collection. I liked every other readings we have read expect for "Mushroom Queen", for me it was confusing with the lady and the mushroom.
ReplyDeleteThat is the very question I asked myself after reading and watching the play. I got mad at myself, thinking I have a difficulty understanding things. Then when I read the play again, I came to realize that the author purposely made the story confusing. The topic is about rape, it is sensitive and complicated. It is not an easy to begin with. Additionally, everyone has their own opinion about things. The author was challenging the audiences; she didn’t give us the straight answer to the problem. She wanted us to think, acknowledge and realize what was going on in plain sight. I don’t think the author wanted to change anyone’s idea but she wants us to test ourselves. “who will I believe, the only one girl who says she’s the victim here or the everyone else in the story that says she was not?”, this is the question the author wanted us to ask.
ReplyDeleteI had a great time taking this class. The class never bored me especially on lecture days, I like hearing what other people's opinions on all different kinds of topics on the reading that day. The group critiques are really useful, having my peers helping me. Nothing was useless in the class. I like all the readings, many people don’t like "The Mushroom Queen" but I personally don’t mind it at all. What I really hate and wasn’t able to finish the reading is "The Antique Blacks." The format, information and everything in it were not for me at all.
Its really admiring performance of the characters of" She Eats Apples" who understood the theme, ideas and information about the image of women in the society and influence the male role in our high schools folks. Ashley want to support herself against a bad girl which leads her to afraid all those girls or characters as their involvement in sex. I think She is used as symbol of women status and dignity degrade by sex and rape culture. I think media coverage enhance the rape culture and degrade the school environment. The horror of rape culture is another voice of the antique black which was the worst section of this semester.I like all the class materials which I read , analyze and understand the literature and its importance to improve our social values. I will always remember the evaluation and critiques of our sessions. It always help me in correction and observations.Thanks for prof. who gives the best of him.And thankful to all of my mates who share my views with patience.
ReplyDeleteAshley becomes friends with Evelyn because she feels as she could identify her experience with the one she went through as well. The reason that some of her friends have problems with Ashley being friends with Evelyn like Lily is because it seems like Evelyn is just getting to her head into making her believe that it was rape. What I thought about the rape scene with the apples was that Ashley at first took the bait that Ben provided for her but then turned out to regret her action of being there in the first place reacting in such a manner where it seems that she is choking at the act that she committed with Ben
ReplyDeleteThe connections that this play shares with other works of literature that we have read through out the semester is The Mushroom queen. Where they both jump in and out into different perspectives and personas of the characters. Where in the "She eats apples" play the characters would be narrowed down to where one character would play 2-3 people at a time. While for the mushroom queen the women would see the world as a women but have the capabilities of a mushroom making it hard to distinguish at times when the author made the switch off to the mushroom playing the women...confusing the reader, in my opinion i feel as the writers does this in order for the viewer to be able to think and find the answers on there own where they are not being handed everything to them.
DeleteAs we come to the finalization of this course, I've come to fall in love with all the activities that we have came across upon as it always pushed us to put ourselves in different perspectives and shoes. Where we got to play the 3rd point of view, 2nd point of view and 1st point of view to all of the literature that we have had read and wrote about.
DeleteAshley becomes friends with she because Ashley feels she can relate to what happened to her. That she can help her clear things up. I also feel she is a necessary part of the play because she was perceived as a hoe and still got raped. It lets the readers know even though you’re a “slut” doesn’t make it ok for anyone to have sex with you without your ok.
ReplyDeleteAshley and Evelyn become friends because Evelyn was the only one listening to her believing that Ben did rape her.
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