A Philosophical Response to Fiction
For the purposes of our class the response paper is 5 pages.
What you need to do in order to fulfill this assignment is:
Create a summary sheet on the fictive piece that includes: characters, plot, themes, and
evaluation (for an example see: michaelboylan.net, blog, book reviews)—
note this is for
preparation purposes only and is not to be turned in as part of your 5 pages.
Isolate a single passage in the book that you feel is pivotal to the theme of the book (this
passage can be consecutive, for example pages 10-22, or it can be constructed on a
common theme, for example pages 135-137 & 192-195 & 238-240.
Briefly go through the scene highlighting character, plot, and tropes (metaphors, motifs,
description, etc.)
Try to discern a particular point of view within the passage that mirrors the book in a
controversial fashion (the anomaly)
Decide whether you agree or disagree with this point of view (your judgment of the
anomaly)
Set out the relevant practical and theoretical philosophical principles at stake and apply
them to the problem.
Use 3 philosophical principles to help you create a positive or negative reaction to the
author’s theme (in the small and the large realm). If it is positive, think of bringing up
objectors and refute them. If it is negative, engage in a dialog with the author—ending
up by rejecting position. The theme should be readily understandable from the scene you
have chosen.
Reflect on the significance of your position. What abstract general points about the
world have now been elucidated? What concrete cases occurring in the world today
might be different if your judgment were to be adopted? * most important point. At least
a page.
Rubric. If you represent all eight points sequentially in your paper you will earn some kind of
“B” grade (so long as you are also close to 5 pages, i.e., within a half-page under or a full page
over). To get a high “B” or an “A-“ or “A” grade you will have to do well on the reflection
bullet.
I choose to talk starting from the second part of page 187 when mary said “How can a women get in this men dominated world” I found it interesting to write about so please read it and fulfill the 8 points.
the prof said I should bring three philosophical principles and talk about also he told me to give a real world example on how USA need to work more to give women their rights to be equal as men He asked me to give an area or area in the US government that still has not give women the right to work
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