Please read Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterfly up to page 90.
These are not essays and don’t need to be formal in presentation. When you write, just be direct and concise. Take an analytic perspective of how the story is communicated, and not a critical analysis of form or content. If you “get it” it succeeded as communication. For us, as writers, as storytellers, the question is how that communication works.
Keep the following in mind, when you upload to the associated Discussion board:
Do you have a clear sense of the story being told to you, looking back on another time with a more modern outlook? Is the perspective of the storytelling consistent? Do you have a sense of an explicit or implied narrator?
Do you get lots of information in summary? Are you provided with conclusions and clear understandings of how to judge the events and people involved?
What chains of Cause & Effect do you see operating?
Trace the stories of three characters that exist within this narrative:
Katherine Johnson; Dorothy Vaughan; and Mary Jackson
Is each one an individual story? Do their stories all center on thematic issues and not just the circumstances of working in the nation’s chief aeronautical lab?
