Group Analysis of Girl Culture

Link to Outline:

https://docs.google.com/a/email.arizona.edu/document/d/1oVtNoZV3bfwEOGPEqAeSxfFyJv-2PUHu-D_Vd6LkBbc/edit?usp=sharing

Paragraphs:

While Greenfield's work is littered with striking imagery and powerful themes, the one that appears to reflect girl culture the strongest is reflection itself: mirrors. It is not men or society or even misogyny as a whole that give the most scrutiny; they just create the guidelines. In the end, our biggest critic is ourselves. Throughout the work, images of women examining themselves with unease are numerous. Some try to mask insecurity through poses expressing sexuality, others outright show revulsion in disgust. Either way the result is the same, these women are concerned over their image. This in turn shows more about girl culture than many writings ever could. They display the obsession with aesthetics and to a deeper extent self-doubt. One day a woman can go to the mirror and dislike what she sees. Another, she may do it again think she is beautiful, but that only solidifies her own insecurity. It is the self-evaluation of ourselves that is the true spur of doubt, regardless of what that evaluation may be. We try and try to examine ourselves as others would, but it becomes apparent that, no matter what we think of ourselves, that is not necessarily what others believe. This reflection is little but self-torture to many, as it changes nothing of society.

SOAPSTone:

I used SOAPSTone as a basic guideline for my paragraph recreation, but at times let it take a back seat to my own intuition. The S (Speaker) was Lauren Greenfield, and I made sure to add that not only for credibility, but, this being one of the last paragraphs, to keep coherency with the piece. O (occasion) was already introduced earlier in the essay so I did not blatantly identify it, I did however mention the subject of girl culture and societal views. A (audience) was for the most part any person, and I made sure to cover what Greenfield showed as well as the effects it has on the reader. P (purpose) in line with audience, I made sure to describe the extent to which the piece affects the reader and how. S (subject), without the subject, mirrors and their effect, this recreation would have been completely different than the original paragraph. Lastly, I attempted to keep the Tone, which was a mix between informative and didactic, but I tried to forget the paragraph as much as I could with the exception of the topic sentences so I could have a fresh recreation. Thus, that may have been lost a bit.