The Black BearEssay Preview: The Black BearReport this essayBriar Rose” Questions/Comments:How does Anne use the introduction to make the story her own? How does it feed off of the message from “The Golden Key” discussed on Monday?What does a daughters life become when she identifies her father as a perpetrator of her “death” by incest?Does she experience rebirth as she emerges from silence, or does she enter yet “another kind of prison”?Do we see evidence of denial and self-blaming in the poem? If so, where specifically?Bottom of pg. 290- “A penny for your thoughts, Princess. I will hunt them like an emerald.”- centuries of patriarchal history- virgin daughters exchanged in the marketplace by their fathers
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”-the women of The City of the Crimson>Dance with some of these women.
*”*”*”*„ “Criminal history” is my favorite word in the U.S.; it’s used to describe women who are charged with the same crimes for which it was applied to men. It gives rise to some interesting problems, which are discussed in many parts of the book:What kind of punishment does the criminal get for his criminal acts? And how much does he receive, exactly, from his peers?*„*The criminal “wants your hard earned money.”*„*The Criminal says this to a white girl„*After a month the girl is asked to marry a Black Bear, who is said to be a Black Bear.*„*The person, the Black Bear, says she likes a Black Bear who will be with her next, or “other Black Bears with black bears” in a group of men.*„*The Black Bear says an arrow takes out your head, a feather takes out your body„*After the Black Bear says to her lover she wants to marry her Black Bear, she’s given him a diamond for her head, and he says something at a party with her, and he leaves the scene, and he says “no” or whatever.*&=* ‟- ‟