ROGERIAN ARUGUMENT

Rogerian Argument

Rogerian Argument

My term paper, "What an Animal", utilises Rick Bass's "Antlers" to exemplify humanities denial and decrease of it's primal origins, and the confusion that outcomes from interaction with the last vestiges of animal instinct. At some issue in annals humankind invented the idea that we are separate or even superior to rest of the animal kingdom. For centuries since, humankind has denied our environment in an try to verify this theory. It is now advised unthinkable that any animal is even remotely identical to that of a human being, and any human who accepts as true that man is part of the animal world is labeled primitive. But some humans no longer realise the primal calls and gut feelings their bodies still pulse with. In the story “The Pioneers” by James Fenimore Cooper chapter three “The Slaughter of the Pigeons” displays how Cooper describes the way civilization disturbs the natural abundance of the wilderness. The lesson in this section of “The Pioneer” appears to propose that man should take care of and be one with environment or face the decimation that lies in the future for the environment. Chapter three starts with the townspeople equipping themselves with pistols, guns, bows, arrows and even a cannon in adept to fire the migrating pigeons. Although not all women decried their position, a strong-minded minority fallen their oven mits, put their fists in the air, and called out for a change. Equal opening, identical right to ballot, identical pay, and all round equality is what they demanded. But feminism was not only discovered at suffrage rallys or Grange meetings, it made its way in to every medium, encompassing literature. Abit more subtle than rallys and disputes, short tales were an productive device for a feminist with the disposition for exposition. Among these women wordsmiths were Charlotte Perkins Gilman, scribe of "The Yellow Wallpaper", and Sarah Orne Jewett who composed "A White Heron". Both of these stories aim on the horrid state of women throughout the late 19th Century and subtley push for feminism.

Affirmative Argument

In 1886 Sarah Orne Jewwet published "A White Heron", a short story about a girl who refuses to give up the location of a white heron to a young man. While this story appears to be a simple tale of a girl growing up, it is far more than that from a feminist perspective. The first sign of sexism in the story comes at the end of its first section, "She grieved because the longed-for white heron was elusive, but did not lead the guest, she only followed, and there was no such thing as speaking first," (Jewwet, 2002, 526). After only knowing this man for less than a day, Sylvia had already positioned herself as a subordinate. At only nine years old, Sylvia "knew her place" in society and fell right in to it without thinking. This is the way things were run in the 19th century, women submissive to dominating ...