17. About Practice Essay

Before i wrote my practice essay, i read the texts one more time and while i was reading them i took some notes to remember the examples.While i was writing, it was kind of hard for me to start with the thesis but no introduction.So first i wrote the main part of my essay then i wrote my thesis.İ dont know if it was a good idea but that was how it was easy for me.İ noticed that i have more thing to write about on Tannen's text because it covers lots of examples.İ wanted cover all the examples that i remember.İ wanted to make connections between 2 texts.So developing the main part wasnt that hard for me.For conclusion part i paraphrase my sentences in the introduction.

After im done with writing, i read my work and send it =))


I hope that tomorrow, we will all succeed in our final exams. GOOD LUCK FOR US!!!!

15. Practice Essay

Compare & contrast the texts "marked woman" and "a woman on a roof" by means of status of woman in society.

Women had no freedom to be unmarked like man.We can understand it by examining and comparing these two texts marked woman and a woman on a roof which both denote the same idea that women are marked!

Lessing wrote a story named "a woman on a roof" at 1960s.At that time people find her very strict about female rights - she was named as a feminist- In her story she created a woman with no fear of men, not annoyed by their glances and continued her work- sunbathing.If we look through Tannen's eyes to this story- especially to her- Tannen would probably say that she was marked by men.Because she was beautiful and had no one to stop her, those 3 men thought that they had rights to look to her because she was there right in front of their eyes on the neighbour roof.
According to Tannen, a great majority of women are marked.She gave lots of examples to indicate women's marks.For example; in grammer some verbs and nouns are marked with the endings like -ess and -ette.These words are seen as "female" in the society.She also assumed that there is no marked women.A woman would be marked anyway either she wears sexy clothes and sends a message of "available" or wears normal clothes and still sends a message like "i'm not that type of woman!". The biggest marks are prefixes.A male uses "Mr." from the day of born till his death.But a woman need to change her "Ms." to "Mrs." when she got married.It is also common to think that taking husband's surname for a married woman is a mark.Tannen also added that using the both surnames is a mark too.
She also pointed out a different perspective by looking from a varied point of view; biology! She said that female chromosomes XX represented as a "female".Male chromosomes are XY and she denoted only Y didnt have any function.Y needs a X to form a MALE.
Tannen also used Fasold's article to support her ideas.Fasold explained that girls were borned with fully female bodies; but boys born with modified female bodies.He asked, Why do men have nipples???? He also added that there are few species that only produce female babies by parthonogenesis but no species that only produce males - there would be an extinction in the first generation anyway...-. he explained that in honey bees worker bees dont involve with the reproduction thing so they dont need any gender but they are named as "females".So even they are marked...

If we compare Lessing's and Tannen's point of views to the women, we can easily see that they both think that women are marked in the society by men whether they wish or not.Society doesnt give them freedom to be unmarked.