Research Paper Topic

The topic that I plan to write about is the effects of patriarchal norms on female identity, safety, and relations within A Thousand Splendid Suns. This article will be submitted to the Rock Creek Review platform since this establishment is seeking to tell the stories of marginalized voices. For the readings, I am assigning an article that focuses on Gender, trauma, and adaptive behavior within the context of the story. This article is very broad in what it covers, so my classmates will have a lot to discuss. I hope to gain insight into what readers would want to focus on when learning about this topic. The passage that I assigned from the text is one of my favorite parts of the book. The passage and the guided question connected to it will help me to navigate how well my audience would understand the story. In class, we discussed the balance between not over-explaining but also not overestimating our audience, so this will help me get an idea of what is “obvious” and what requires in-depth explanations. There is a lot more I plan to research. For example, I know how the general patriarchal norms affected the characters in the story in terms of their behavior and relations, but I want to learn more about how the characters reacted to the trauma brought on by those norms. Hopefully, the class discussions and the articles I research will prepare me to write the article as best as possible.