Blog 091714

I have chosen the passage that is the last paragraph on page 111 that moves onto page 112

text to text: "Grandma is wearing a good dress with an apron. She wipes her hands on the inside of the apron pockets as she cooks." (111) this passage probably seems pretty obvious as a thing to link, but because im only linking it to one thing really strongly, I picked this one. For some reason this passage is reminding me of the scene in kiki's delivery service where they take the pot pie out of the oven. I think it's the word apron and the fact that cobbler is acknowledged later on in the passage, but I honestly don't know for sure.

text to world: "She wants me right up under her, watching how she does the cooking so I can feed my future husband a healthy meal." (112) This passage kind of, maybe without meaning it, really shows a deeply misogynistic society, and a heteronormative one at that. The woman will do the cooking because the man can't, the man has more important things to do. Cooking is woman's work, and being able to cook will help achieve a future husband. This also implies that the man won't be able to cook himself a healthy meal, since in today's society a lot of boys don't know how to do simple things like laundry or cooking because of how ingrained gender roles are in their lives. The heteronormativity is also strong here, as it's implying 1. Rachel will have a husband. 2. Rachel will be a romantic individual. 3. Rachel's future husband will also follow classic gender roles.

text to self: "She has made her spicy beans and a roast with gravy and real potatoes, not the ones that are flakes in a white box that says mashed potatoes" (111) This passage really reminds me of having eaten the flakes from the white box and i want to stress the fact that they do not taste much like potatoes at all, they're pretty gross. Or maybe the stuff I ate just wasn't made right.