PROCESS: COME UP WITH AN OVERALL POINT FOR THE PARAGRAPH
In the beginning of the novel, Doria’s lack of confidence makes it difficult for her to accept herself.
Textual Details:
• (pg 36) “I’ll give her that it’s true that I’m useless…”
• (pg 2) “Dad he wanted a son….customer specifications”
• Wants to escape. (pg 65) “I would just really like to be someone else,”
• (pg 65) “are better dressed than me”
• (pg 37) “Yeah, OK, it doesn’t really mean anything,”
• (pg84) “So it is truly bad luck to be a girl”
THIS IS THE PARAGRAPH FROM THE ABOVE DETAILS:
Doria thinks very little of herself and her abilities. Even her most basic identity as a girl is compromised because her father abandoned the family so he could have a son. Since Dor��ia does not meet “customer specifications” (2) she acknowledges that she feels “shut down or closed off or something...” (1) and unable to care about what is happening around her and to do anything about it. At school she admits she is “useless” (36) and even when a teacher writes a complimentary comment, Doria undercuts it with the remark: “Yeah, ok, it doesn’t really mean anything...” (37) She criticizes what she wears as clothes “not even the Salvation Army would want” (65) Because of the conditions of her life, Doria wants to escape: “...I just really would like to be someone else, somewhere else...” (65)
FIRST YOU NEED TO MAKE A POINT FOR THE PGH. Doria thinks very little of herself and her abili�ties. THEN YOU NEED TO ORGANIZE THE DETAIL; HERE, I WENT FROM MOST BASIC TO MOST GENERAL; Even her most basic identity as a girl is compromised because her father abandoned the family so he could have son. Since Doria does not meet “customer specifications” (2) she acknowledged that she feels “shut down or closed off or something...” (1) and unable to care about what is happening around her. At school she admits she is “useless” (36) and even when a teacher writes a complimentary comment, Doria undercuts it with the remark: “Yeah, ok, it doesn’t really mean anything...” (37) She criticizes the clothes she wears as “not even the Salvation Army would want” (65) Because of the conditions of her life, Doria wants to escape: “...I just really would like to be someone else, somewhere else...” (65)