My First Goose Thesis

When given the assignment, I initially had no idea what text to use. I loved all the texts; however, I did not think I would be able to find enough ideas from just one of the texts to write two different papers. In order to figure out which text to use, I simply reread the texts. Babel’s “My First Goose” stood out to me the most because it has different layers. One can read the text and not get anything out of it. However, if one truly thinks about the transformation of the narrator, hundreds of papers could be written. I decided on “My First Goose” because of Babel’s rich metaphors and questioning of masculinity. Choosing which school of criticism to use was easy for me. I knew before I even chose the text that I wanted to do a gender critique. While researching this school of criticism, the true passion for gender and sexual equality ignited within me. I have written many papers from picking out traditional and nontraditional gender roles; however, I never knew the wide range of opportunities to write about gender. After rereading “My First Goose,” it was apparent this text fit perfectly with my passion for

The main similarity between the two analyses is the close reading of the text. For both papers, I used details and information from the text to form my opinions. This similarity happened because of my natural writing tendencies. I employ close reading for the majority of literature analyses. All of the school’s of criticisms use close reading to form ideas; however, the other forms of criticism also refer to other components other than the text itself. This major difference between New Criticism and Gender Criticism causes my papers to be different. My gender critique infers from society and states the traditional gender roles of society. Although both papers show evidence of close reading, my gender critique uses ideas from society and