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Busmanis 1

Katrina Busmanis

Ms. Drinkwater

ENG3UV-04

23 July, 2021

Annotated Bibliography

Dubus, Andre. The Fat Girl. 2012, apelac3.edublogs.org/files/2012/03/The-Fat-Girl-297rfhc.pdf.

Dubus’ The Fat Girl is a story about a girl named Louise and her struggle to

appease the people in her life. Since she was young, people only viewed her for her

weight. Her identity was tied to how heavy she was. Her mother tried to put her on a diet,

leading her to develop a secret binging habit. When she went on a diet and lost weight,

she received praise from everyone who scorned her for being fat, but she felt that as lost

the weight, she also lost a part of herself. When married, she felt that her husband could

not understand the shaming that she went through as a child. When she started to gain

weight during and after her pregnancy, her husband lost interest in her and stopped

having her around his friends. The people in her life went back to shaming her, but she

found herself to be more comfortable and full of spirit in her fat body. This source is

extremely useful when trying to understand personal identity and acceptance of self. It

was interesting to see the effects of people forcing their version of an ideal identity onto

someone else; it stopped the protagonist from feeling whole and from the people in her

life to treat ‘the real her’ with genuine love and respect. This story made me evaluate the

relationship between our own perceived identity and the way others perceive us,

especially when both of these identities contradict one another.


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Hammerstein, Oscar. “Happy Talk.” Happy Talk " Oscar Hammerstein II | This I Believe, This I

Believe, 28 May 2010, thisibelieve.org/essay/16609/.

In this podcast/essay, Hammerstein discusses how he is happy despite the flaws of

the world and himself. If he were to focus only on the negative aspects of life, such as the

death of people he loves and the danger of a nuclear war, he would be undermining the

beautiful and positive aspects of it. He believes that the only way to enjoy life is if you

accept the imperfections of the world and yourself, and that it is silly to do anything but

that. This is a particularly useful source because it highlights how a person’s flaws are

integral to their identity. You cannot truly live and be happy with yourself if you do not

acknowledge your flaws and the imperfections of your life and the world that you live in.

Kiffmeyer, Jennie. “The Stories We Tell, The Stories We Are.” The Stories We Tell, The Stories

We Are " Jennie Kiffmeyer | This I Believe, This I Believe, 24 Mar. 2014,

thisibelieve.org/essay/140004/.

Jennie Kiffmeyer speaks about the death of her father. She explains how she knew

very little about him because he was a private man, and due to this, she finds it hard to

write about him. She talks about how during the beginning of our lives, our family

dictates our identities, and how we must eventually create it ourselves. Kiffmeyer

concludes by stating that she mainly writes to preserve her identity, to have something to

distinguish who she is after she dies. This is a very useful source because of the way that

it presents the concept of identity as subjective and fading. The philosophy that identity is

the stories that you create and share with others when you die is interesting and

well-supported in the essay/podcast.


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Meloy, Maile. “‘Ranch Girl’ Maile Meloy.” WordPress.com, ads714, 30 June 2013,

ads714.wordpress.com/2013/06/30/ranch-girl-maile-meloy/.

Ranch girl is a short story about how your perceived identity can stop you from

becoming someone more than who you are now. The narrator of this story grows up a

ranch girl and lives her life as the stereotype that comes with the label. This label molds

itself into the ranch girl’s personality to the point where her personal identity and the

stereotype becomes interchangeable. This, coupled with her desire for comfort and

stability stops her from leaving her small town. Ranch girl could have grown to be

something so much more than her label, but her identity had built her a cage. This is an

excellent source because it is a great example of how viewing identity as static and

unchanging can stop people from growing. Identifying too strongly with a stereotype or

label can limit your opportunities and stop you from stepping outside of your comfort

zone.

Morton, David. “Stripped Identity.” Poetry Foundation, Poetry Foundation, Nov. 1944,

www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=23994.

Morton’s poem is about how a rose loses its identity as it ages. It describes how a

rose loses its petals, thus losing it’s name and identity. Although short and simple, this is

a very good source. This poem leaves the reader wondering what makes a rose a rose. It’s

most popular attribute is its petals, so when the petals fall from the plant does it cease to

be a rose? This poem made me reflect on how fluid and changeable identity is. It made

me reevaluate my ideas on what qualities are needed to give something its identity.

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