How does the essay fit with the others we have read and discussed? Laura Kipnis explains how our perceptions of love have been shaped by beliefs that are propelled by the culture of our society. In our time and our secret it shows how love for certain things changes people like the bad brother got more love then the good brother in our time and in our secret the love from another females caused her sister to become a homosexual and the family to be secretive about things Laura kipnis says It is bad behavior to not strive for upward mobility, to not work to earn a good job or go to college to get into a good career is to be considered lazy, or not in control of one’s life.
And it compares to our time by showing what happens when u don’t do those things like the brother who went to jail and kept getting in to trouble Also in the essay she is saying People are socialized to hold beliefs that are in line with the rest of society and this causes the majority of the population not to think critically and question these beliefs. It shows this in our secret because homosexuality was not accepted during that time so people looked down upon it What are the most common themes or ideas?
In her essay Love’s Labors Kipnis is arguing that social norms take a primary role in shaping how we live our lives. In Our time it shows how the neighborhood the bad brother grew up in changed his life and belifs In Our secret it shows how the way the girls grew up and the families being secretive gave them a strained and unclose family relationship So in all of them Society shapes the way that people are and what they do. Which essay does it contradict or refute?
It does not contradict either essay to me
Which essay does it support or clarify?
It supports both essays and clarifies why things are the way it is in both of the essays How does reading this essay inform our understanding of the other pieces we have covered? Because it gives us a understanding of the love and labors causing things to happen in the people’s lives within the essays.
