the banning of little house
I have thought about many different ways to organize this paper and have come to the conclusion that the best way to approach the topic is on a book-by-book basis. My perceptions of the gender biases in these books vary greatly and I did not want to begin altering my views on each so that they would fit into certain contrived connections. What interests me most in these stories is how the authors utilize certain character?s within their given environment. Their instincts and reactions are a wonderful window into how the authors perceive these ?people? would interact with their surroundings and often are either rewarded or punished by the author through consequences in the plot for their responses. Through this means we can see how the authors expect their characters to behave in relation to their post in the world. We must be very careful as readers to judge these biases based only on evidence within the text and not invent them from our own psyche due to the individual world we know. In Louis Sachar?s award winning book Holes, we see gender biases in many characters. The first and most obvious bias in this book can be found in the way Sachar
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Approximate Word count = 2272
Approximate Pages = 9 (250 words per page double spaced)
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