Analyzing Literature with The Method(E) - Assignment Example

Second Home: Welcome to my dollhouse by Katie Haegele Step mom x 6, play/playing x4, look/looked/looking x13, wallpaper x5, dollhouse x 10, remember x 3, decide x3, love/loved/lovely x3, family x2, dad x6, kitchen x3, house x 13, Christmas x2, interest x2, kid x2, old x4, dolls x6, my/me x30.Step 2: doll, dollhouse-they all revolve around toys. Opinion, thinking, idea- involves reasoning and perceptions. Play/playing/played-all connote the leisurely activity of playing. Adult, kid, ‘the ancient one’, teenager, young, old, “turned five”, age-both signify growth and development.

Step 3: The narrator feels both stupid/vaguely embarrassed after getting her long-awaited period. Play, playing, dolls appear severally a clear indication that the narrator enjoys playing, but she feels stupid/weird for having played with a toy; “I felt stupid for having played with a toy that day” (Katie N.p). Play and bleeding- “I’ve been bleeding monthly for more than 20 years now and I figure I’m allowed to play with anything I want” (Katie N.p). The author states this when we very well know that she is already an adult and should not engage in childish plays.

Step 4: Repetition: doll and dollhouseStrand: play/playing/playedContrasts; Play and bleeding- the narrator states that she is allowed to play after bleeding monthly for over 20 years yet the bleeding signifies ‘menstruation periods’ growing up thus should not be playing with toys. Step 5: one of the most important aspects that I can take from step 4 is play and bleeding. The narrator states that she is allowed to play after bleeding monthly for over 20 years yet the bleeding signifies ‘menstruation periods’ growing up thus should not be playing with toys.

This indicates the narrators love for play and dolls. Even as an adult, she still plays with dolls, ironically. Moreover, the narrator repeats the playing concept to emphasize and reiterate her love for it. Works CitedKatie Haegele. "Penn Gazette | Essays | Alumni Voices." Penn: University of Pennsylvania. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 May 2015. .