Social Commentary On The Book 'The Semplica Girl Diaries'
Paper 2 English
The Semplica Girl Diaries
Dad comes to a painful realization that he will never truly reach his ambitions, life is forever a rocky road of trials and troubles, with one always having more.
Realizes that loving and caring for his family is the one thing he can control
Semplica girls are women from impoverished countries decorating lawn as living ornaments.
Irony in treatment of semplica girls from treatment of family, dehumanized
As apart of the family name consisted of status, accumulation in wealth
Social commentary on treatment of immigrants by average family for labor purposes, cleaning purposes, lawn care, apart from workers whose use is justifiable, using semplica girls for asthetic beauty justifies their dehumanization, less than people but things. …show more content…
-Keeping up with the joneses social commentary means of material accumulation as a means to secure social class and keep up with neighbor.
Failing to keep up with the joneses, means to fail to secure socio-economic class and towards cultural inferiority. A commentary on morality whether it is established through society’s pressures and how others view you, or established through ones own judgements. In the end, Semplica girls demonstrate morality is linked with conforming to society. Narrator perceives morality is linked with how others view you and going with society as key to happiness. However, in conforming narrator never truly reaches happiness and becomes brainwashed with social appearance, concerned with the bare wire absent of sempplica girls at the end.
How have symbols and motifs been used in the stories and how successfully in the
stories?
Symbols and motifs
Symbol: The torrini family represents the cultural symbol of the jones family applied to the cliché of keeping up with the joneses. Indirectly, represents underhanded force that forces family to live beyond their means. The torrini’s symbolize a typical wealthy American family whose seemingly perfect life casts a force of envy among other average dwellers.
Symbol: Semplica Girls: represents the desensitization of humans as merely objects for visual pleasure.
Landscape and decorative yard: symbol for disguising true
Setting:
-typical suburban setting in the near distant future, establishes normalcy early on to create an atmosphere of normalcy. The lower to poor middle class family and dad commenting on the story mirrors the demographic for an average American family, neither rich nor very poor but living beyond means. Economic conditions of family, fuel optimism in forcing emotions and actions. Works in a job more than half of American work, in a cubicle, doing something seemingly commonplace yet universal for average American male. College educated, coming from a background of middle class, ideals of determination to improve status, or the American dream. Looking rich rather than being rich.
- Setting acts as a mold to make narrator extravagant and conform to society’s pressures to satisfy his family, even if it means going against morality.
Pt. of View
-Narrator feels compulsed to document a polished life as if writing a book, never states insecurities or fears, maintains aura of positivity against the seemingly negative circumstances. Detatched from reality in a way feels he must impress family
Plot/structure:
-Journal from sept. 3 to 26th very grounded in past and present not in future circumstance.
- rethink what he wrote justifies impulsitivty of actions
1. How far has the confidence in the reliability of the narrative voice had an impact on the appreciation of fictional prose.
Pt. of View/Characterization
Semplica Girl Diaries: narrator has
2. Compare the methods in which writers of each story sought to make their characters/situations credible.
-Through setting /// characterization/// pt of view?
The writer employs use of setting and characterization as ways to establish a frame of credibility and normalcy in the story the semplica girl diaries. The seemingly average family and day to day job contain economic conditions and an environment that has a universal appeal. However, through creating this frame of credibility through circumstance, the narrator can then easily portray everyone in similar situations as susceptible to falling into society’s trap of conforming. By creating a setting and character of universal position, which one can relate, the writer establishes a relatively credible circumstance of average America.
Yet, through universal appeal and establishment of credibility , the writer thus portrays anyone as susceptible to falling in the trap of trusting a seemingly normal environment and becoming trapped in society’s harmful cycles.
Through Setting establishing a universal theme of
3. With reference to each short story, compare the ways in which writers have used narrative strategies and with what effect?
How does each writer use strategies to create meaning and effect>
Point of view, setting, and characterization
The writer employs use of Setting and characterization as narrative strategies to establish a frame of normalcy in the story the semplica girl diaries. The seemingly average family and day to day job contain economic conditions and an environment that has a universal appeal. However the writer uses the backdrop of setting and characterization as a universal aspect to portray everyone in similar situations as susceptible to falling victim to their deceptive environment influences.
4. How have symbols and motifs been used in the stories and how successfully in the stories?
-symbolism, motifs
In the semplica Girl Diaries, the symbols are prevalent. Motif of beauty as a disguise shown through multiple images of semplica girls disguising true suffering back at home. In the semplica girls the writer uses symbolism to create a backdrop of normalcy that characterizes each physical symbol as an object, situation, or idea one might encounter in reality. Ironically, the successful use of symbolism in the semplica girl diaries, lies in the difference of one’s perceived meaning of symbols next to their actual meaning. Thus, in the Semplica the meaning of symbols are ironic to how the character’s perceive the symbols to their true meaning, thus creating irony in different perspectives. More so, each symbol holds a meaning of society against individual or vice versa, creating an impression of individual’s fall through forces in environment.
Symbol: The torrini family represents the cultural symbol of the jones family applied to the cliché of keeping up with the joneses. Indirectly, represents underhanded force that forces family to live beyond their means. The torrini’s symbolize a typical wealthy American family whose seemingly perfect life casts a force of envy among other average dwellers.
Symbol: Semplica Girls: represents the desensitization of humans as merely objects for visual pleasure.
Landscape and decorative yard: symbol for disguising true
The Semplica Girl Diaries
Dad comes to a painful realization that he will never truly reach his ambitions, life is forever a rocky road of trials and troubles, with one always having more.
Realizes that loving and caring for his family is the one thing he can control
Semplica girls are women from impoverished countries decorating lawn as living ornaments.
Irony in treatment of semplica girls from treatment of family, dehumanized
As apart of the family name consisted of status, accumulation in wealth
Social commentary on treatment of immigrants by average family for labor purposes, cleaning purposes, lawn care, apart from workers whose use is justifiable, using semplica girls for asthetic beauty justifies their dehumanization, less than people but things. …show more content…
-Keeping up with the joneses social commentary means of material accumulation as a means to secure social class and keep up with neighbor.
Failing to keep up with the joneses, means to fail to secure socio-economic class and towards cultural inferiority. A commentary on morality whether it is established through society’s pressures and how others view you, or established through ones own judgements. In the end, Semplica girls demonstrate morality is linked with conforming to society. Narrator perceives morality is linked with how others view you and going with society as key to happiness. However, in conforming narrator never truly reaches happiness and becomes brainwashed with social appearance, concerned with the bare wire absent of sempplica girls at the end.
How have symbols and motifs been used in the stories and how successfully in the
stories?
Symbols and motifs
Symbol: The torrini family represents the cultural symbol of the jones family applied to the cliché of keeping up with the joneses. Indirectly, represents underhanded force that forces family to live beyond their means. The torrini’s symbolize a typical wealthy American family whose seemingly perfect life casts a force of envy among other average dwellers.
Symbol: Semplica Girls: represents the desensitization of humans as merely objects for visual pleasure.
Landscape and decorative yard: symbol for disguising true
Setting:
-typical suburban setting in the near distant future, establishes normalcy early on to create an atmosphere of normalcy. The lower to poor middle class family and dad commenting on the story mirrors the demographic for an average American family, neither rich nor very poor but living beyond means. Economic conditions of family, fuel optimism in forcing emotions and actions. Works in a job more than half of American work, in a cubicle, doing something seemingly commonplace yet universal for average American male. College educated, coming from a background of middle class, ideals of determination to improve status, or the American dream. Looking rich rather than being rich.
- Setting acts as a mold to make narrator extravagant and conform to society’s pressures to satisfy his family, even if it means going against morality.
Pt. of View
-Narrator feels compulsed to document a polished life as if writing a book, never states insecurities or fears, maintains aura of positivity against the seemingly negative circumstances. Detatched from reality in a way feels he must impress family
Plot/structure:
-Journal from sept. 3 to 26th very grounded in past and present not in future circumstance.
- rethink what he wrote justifies impulsitivty of actions
1. How far has the confidence in the reliability of the narrative voice had an impact on the appreciation of fictional prose.
Pt. of View/Characterization
Semplica Girl Diaries: narrator has
2. Compare the methods in which writers of each story sought to make their characters/situations credible.
-Through setting /// characterization/// pt of view?
The writer employs use of setting and characterization as ways to establish a frame of credibility and normalcy in the story the semplica girl diaries. The seemingly average family and day to day job contain economic conditions and an environment that has a universal appeal. However, through creating this frame of credibility through circumstance, the narrator can then easily portray everyone in similar situations as susceptible to falling into society’s trap of conforming. By creating a setting and character of universal position, which one can relate, the writer establishes a relatively credible circumstance of average America.
Yet, through universal appeal and establishment of credibility , the writer thus portrays anyone as susceptible to falling in the trap of trusting a seemingly normal environment and becoming trapped in society’s harmful cycles.
Through Setting establishing a universal theme of
3. With reference to each short story, compare the ways in which writers have used narrative strategies and with what effect?
How does each writer use strategies to create meaning and effect>
Point of view, setting, and characterization
The writer employs use of Setting and characterization as narrative strategies to establish a frame of normalcy in the story the semplica girl diaries. The seemingly average family and day to day job contain economic conditions and an environment that has a universal appeal. However the writer uses the backdrop of setting and characterization as a universal aspect to portray everyone in similar situations as susceptible to falling victim to their deceptive environment influences.
4. How have symbols and motifs been used in the stories and how successfully in the stories?
-symbolism, motifs
In the semplica Girl Diaries, the symbols are prevalent. Motif of beauty as a disguise shown through multiple images of semplica girls disguising true suffering back at home. In the semplica girls the writer uses symbolism to create a backdrop of normalcy that characterizes each physical symbol as an object, situation, or idea one might encounter in reality. Ironically, the successful use of symbolism in the semplica girl diaries, lies in the difference of one’s perceived meaning of symbols next to their actual meaning. Thus, in the Semplica the meaning of symbols are ironic to how the character’s perceive the symbols to their true meaning, thus creating irony in different perspectives. More so, each symbol holds a meaning of society against individual or vice versa, creating an impression of individual’s fall through forces in environment.
Symbol: The torrini family represents the cultural symbol of the jones family applied to the cliché of keeping up with the joneses. Indirectly, represents underhanded force that forces family to live beyond their means. The torrini’s symbolize a typical wealthy American family whose seemingly perfect life casts a force of envy among other average dwellers.
Symbol: Semplica Girls: represents the desensitization of humans as merely objects for visual pleasure.
Landscape and decorative yard: symbol for disguising true