This paper will discuss the influence of feminism in the life of Elizabeth Gilbert in Eat,Pray,Love
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Comparing between novel and film of novel
Use theories
🌸Feminism
🌸Reader response
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8page include work cited
An outline
Introduction
▪ Do problems affect our thought and push us to do efforts to get rid of them?
▪ Eat Pray Love, subtitled “One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
▪ The has chosen to visit three places that begin with “I”, which is a metaphor for what she hopes to find by the end of her journey: a sense of self, or independence.
Thesis: In my essay, I will highlight the novel starting with giving a comprehensive overview about the author, the events of the story, an arguments about the story, through evidences, and finally conclusion about the story.
1. Historical Context
A. Author and Story
▪ Gilbert is a writer by trade; she worked at GQ for five years .
▪ She had already published two novels (Stern Men and The Last American Man) when Eat Pray Love was written.
▪ Elizabeth M. Gilbert (born July 18, 1969) is an American author, essayist, short story writer, biographer, novelist, and memoirist.
▪ She is best known for her 2006 memoir, Eat, Pray, Love,
She had more contributions as in
▪ The KGB Bar Reader: Buckle Bunnies (1998)
▪ Why I Write: Thoughts on the Craft of Fiction (contributor) (1999)
▪ A Writer’s Workbook: Daily Exercises for the Writing Life (foreword) (2000)
▪ The Best American Magazine Writing 2001: The Ghost (2001)
▪ The Best American Magazine Writing 2003: Lucky Jim (2003)
▪ At Home on the Range: Margaret Yardley Potter
B. Eat-Love-Pray Events
▪ Gilbert decides to take a year to travel
▪ She has chosen to visit three places that begin with “I”,
▪ The book opens with Liz already in Italy
▪ The memoir doesn’t necessary unfold in chronological order
▪ Gilbert does mention that she does not want to have children,
▪ She does not want to be married anymore
▪ She uses this instance to explain her faith in God
▪ The book ends as Liz falls in love again, both with herself and with a Brazilian man named Felipe.
2.Analysis /Argument
A. Many critics didn’t like Eat Pray Love. Largely,
B. Reasons
▪ Elizabeth Gilbert was able to go to more places because she had enough money to pay for it.
▪ That annoys a lot of people.
▪ It strikes them as unrealistic.
▪ Who has that kind of money?
▪ Why should we care what happens to this rich woman with her petty fantasy about self-realization?
▪ The words “navel gazing” come up a lot in reviews.
▪ Regular people don’t have time to “self-realize.”
▪ They have bills to pay. They can’t just fly off to Italy, and then India, and then Indonesia.
C. Evidence for supporting the story
▪ Gilbert did something brave.
▪ She left her familiar life for a year and lived alone in unfamiliar places.
▪ It isn’t really very fair to cast her adventure as uninteresting, because it is inherently interesting. It’s different.
▪ It’s unfair to imply a kind of emotional laziness .
▪ She takes on the project of acquiring a home for a divorced Balinese woman with no resources of her own.
▪ She agonizes over her decisions, and she acts with almost shocking sensitivity towards the people she encounters.
▪ The fact that this sensitivity is not directed at her ex-husband leaves some critics huffing with indignation .(Fridkis)
Conclusion
▪ Issues in life forces people to depart
▪ Hopeless makes us feel and end
▪ Life does not stay as it is
▪ Light comes at the end