You can find both stories online, don't use any AI, be honest! Give a high-quality discussion without errors and before the deadline. Give me well-thought-out discussions with zero plagiarism, you can only cite from the stories. I only need the posts, I will do the responses by my own In Dagoberto Gilb’s short story, “Love in L.A.,” we are introduced to Jake, who spends much of the story fantasizing about the L.A. life he would like to lead or misrepresenting the life he presently leads in the city. Which textual details and moments reveal most about this character? Which details complicate your interpretation of this character? How is your view of Jake affected by what you don’t know about him? Last, what point(s) might the author be raising or illustrating through this character? Using the assigned Helena María Viramontes’ short story, “Neighbors,” as your primary text, respond to the following: The narrator describes Aura Rodríguez as always “stay[ing] within her perimeters, both personal and otherwise” and suggests Aura’s only “yearning [is to] live out the remainder of her years without hurting anyone, including herself” (217). But after a tense exchange with neighborhood youths, who threaten her, the elderly woman is depicted in the narrative’s final paragraph as armed and prepared to defend her life and property. Using specific references from the text to support your ideas, discuss Aura’s transformation in the text and her choice to meet threats of revenge with threats of violence. Do you feel her actions/reactions are inevitable? Why or why not? Basic initial posts to this discussion board prompt and basic replies to initial posts should be approximately 100-150 words each. You’re welcome and encouraged to develop your ideas in more robust posts and replies, but 100 words each should be the minimum. (To give you a sense of length, the first prompt of Discussion Board 8 is 87 words. The second is 124 words.) To avoid academic integrity violations, citations should follow direct quotations and paraphrases. In accordance with MLA citation style, please include the author’s last name and the page number where the lines of text may be found (e.g, Gilb 206). Unless you are quoting from or paraphrasing the textbook’s editors, the last name of the artist who wrote the work should be cited (i.e. Gilb 206, not Christie and Gonzalez 206). The discussion board is an opportunity to enter into virtual class discussions. Initial posts should be reflective of an active reading process and replies to posts should engage the poster’s ideas meaningfully. If you happen to agree with a post, your reply should not just express agreement or a general liking or enjoyment of the post (or simply repeat what has been said already because you agree). Such replies, while encouraging and nice to receive, typically do not lead to meaningful discussion of a literary text. Instead, offer a complementary observation to build on the post rather than parrot it, or offer new supporting textual evidence for the post, followed by close reading of the evidence offered. If you happen to disagree with a post, you might offer a counter-perspective that provides supporting textual evidence and a close reading of the evidence to support the countering perspective, or you might pose a related question that encourages classmates to consider the initial post from an alternate perspective. In cases where you are posing a question, it is also important to offer your own response to that question–whether you are the initial poster or replying to a post. Taking this step demonstrates your own thinking on the issue and helps spark further discussion.
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