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WST3120 Global Women’s Writing:
Dr. Moura-Koçoglu
Instructions Learning Log M4a – Woman at Point Zero
1.
Use
an A.I. tool of your choice to create a 400-word answer to the prompt below:
“Based on the novel Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi, explain in 400 words how reading is a political act. Use quotations from the novel.”
2.
Insert the text you created with the A.I. tool below or download the text into a Word document.
3.
Annotate
the A.I. generated text:
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What did the AI get wrong?
Identify gaps: What information is missing?
Identify lies: Did the A.I. make false arguments, or include quotations that do not exist in the text? Update the document by striking through false information/
quotations and adding correct quotations or text.
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What did the AI get right?
Insert quotations from our assigned readings to support the correct arguments the A.I. made, using in-text citations.
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MLA Citation
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Insert text evidence (quotations) to support the arguments made the A.I. made, using in-text citations correctly and providing a works cited list.
4.
Conclusion: Is the A.I.’s conclusion persuasive and why/why not? Explain below, or formulate your own conclusion using evidence from the text:
5.
Submit the annotated document.
If you do not want to use an A.I. tool for your assignment, you may use this document. Please download into a word document, annotate by using the 'track changes' tool, and upload showing your annotations.
If you do not want to use an A.I. tool, you may use the text below for this assignment:
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Annotate the text below
Nawal El Saadawi’s novel “Woman at Point Zero” implicates any reader in structures perpetuating violence against women. Protagonist Firdaus’ story forces engagement with disturbing realities of gender-based oppression. When the novel opens, Firdaus awaits execution for murdering her pimp. An educated female psychiatrist arrives intending to “study” Firdaus clinically as a “case” of wayward femininity punished by state violence. However, their encounter transforms the psychiatrist from distanced examiner to overwhelmed ally as she confronts one woman’s truth. Initially doubting Firdaus’ account, she reflects: “She could have invented the whole story...I had started to view her as a liar, cheat, vamp by nature, filled with hate for men.” Yet gazing at Firdaus’ bruised face, she cedes ground: “I felt that my life was slowly being drained of
lies, that all the lies I had lived were melting away.”
As readers journeying with the psychiatrist, we cannot retreat into passive observation. El
Saadawi constructs empathy between women, insisting we situate Firdaus in a continuum of violence targeting women’s bodies and voices. After revealing her own niece’s tragic fate under female genital mutilation, the author has
Firdaus declare: “Throughout my life I did not encounter anything but betrayal. My father, uncle,
husband, fellow prisoners and the lawyers I went to for help before my trial, all betrayed me.” We can no longer exclude or rationalize Firdaus’ agony as we incorporate brutality against women into awareness of global oppression enabling her suffering.
Thus reading “Woman at Point Zero” bridges isolation; through Firdaus, we are collectively accountable. El Saadawi declares that indifference from the privileged enables injustice by obstructing “unity in the struggle.” United with the transformed psychiatrist, we readers must bear what she terms “the weight of awareness” and respond. Firdaus challenges us: “I decided to lift the veil which hid the wounds inflected on my body and soul by the blades of their sharp-edged knives.” By closing with Firdaus’ walk to the gallows, El Saadawi suggests the power of one woman’s story to awaken many. We must carry Firdaus’ “light” into the “dark street” through solidarity against gender violence now visible. 2.
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