Dog eaters novel

Read the questions carefully and answer THREE of them in a post of 250+ words. Remember to discuss at least one quote from the novel to help develop your answers, and to proofread and edit and pay close attention to MLA conventions before posting. In these answers, show your knowledge of the last section of the book, but now you can refer to the whole novel as well. The Questions (choose Three) 1. Choose a character who went through significant changes in the novel (someone like Daisy or Joey). Discuss your character’s arc and what we learn from it. 2. The President’s wife is the most powerful woman in the novel. Discuss her portrayal and her relationship to the lives of “ordinary” Filipina women. 3. Discuss the women in Rio’s family. What does Hagedorn show us through these women? (They are different from each other and all influence Rio.) 4. How are gender roles and expectations used to control or limit some of the girls and women in the novel? Does anyone break free from them? 5. In this last part of the novel, we learn that Rio moved away from The Philippines. Where did she move to and why? When she returns to Manila to visit, what does she understand as an adult that is different than her life there as a girl? 6. What kinds of female power do we see in the novel? 7. How does social/economic class and access to power affect how girls and women see themselves in the novel? 8. Feminist Criticism asks what texts show us about the possibilities of sisterhood as a mode of resisting patriarchy. Do we see women helping each other to break limitations in the novel? 9. In the novel, we experience living through political turmoil and the horror of a dictatorship that uses rape and murder to control the citizens of the country – an extreme form of violent patriarchy.. There is very little security and safety, even for the upper classes (whom we usually consider “safe”). How does this impact gender roles and expectations for one or more of the characters? Please be specific and explain and discuss. 10. Overall, what do you think the major theme of this novel is? What does the novel show you and make you understand through this theme