Week 9, Project Planning

       For project #2, I have decided to use the project prompt : From a piece of fiction choose a female character on whom to focus, and create a project that discusses some of the following question. In this class, we have read many books with female characters and I have enjoyed some of these readings, so that is the main reason why I chose this topic. I am choosing the reading "About the House Girl" for this project because almost this whole story was about a girl and how she was cherished not just by her family, but a young boy her age also. She was one of the main characters of this story and the story pretty much evolved around her.
       I am aware that we need to use literary devices in our project and I plan on using characterization, theme, plot, and a couple others once I start thinking about what to write more in depth. I think it should be easy to relate and discuss these literary devises into my project because this story had many of them used, and they were pretty straight forward to understand. I have outlined some ideas on a piece of paper by taking notes and thinking about what I am going to write and how to tie it into my thesis. Since this prompt has many questions required to talk about based off of the reading, I am assuming my thesis has to relate to all the questions or be a separate thesis for each question. The questions are based off her attitude and how she and other characters view herself, so I think I can tie each of those into a thesis.
My thesis statement is "I believe Ifapi was viewed as a price possession by the author and the main characters of this story and she herself did not believe that as much as they did. She grew up getting babied by her father and Aunt, but as she grew up she wanted to be herself and live her own life, and that happened once she met Patipir. My attitude towards her is positive based off the events that happened in the story and the personal decisions she made.
       I am going to think about this a little more and might change it a little bit, but that is a base line for my thesis. I have a good idea of what and how I am going to do this project on and I think my planning has helped me a lot.