I stand Here Ironing Literary Techniques Analysis
Subject
Humanities
Question Description
I need a 3 paragraph post written over the folowing topic:
I Stand Here Ironing carries a lifetime of emotion in simple descriptions of remembered moments of raising a child in a difficult time. Review the stream-of-consciousness technique and the use of flashbacks to illustrate a mother-daughter relationship. In the discussion topic, answer the following:
Do you feel that the regional idiom and nonstandard help or hurt the story? Why or why not?
Where did the hesitation in the storytelling point to her bitterness or her pain? Provide examples from the story to justify your position.
Please be sure to cite sections of the story to support the post. Cite all sources in MLA and address the rubric for other questions regarding this assisgnment.
Then you will need to make personalized replies to my peers (2 paragraphs each). I will provide the peer post once I have selected a tutor. Below is what will need to be covered in each peer response:
In responding to fellow students, consider how specific details are used to carry the regret and bitterness of the mother. What run-on sentences or compressed description stood out as painful memories for the narrator? How could you use this technique in your own story?