1. 👧
THE
POSE
Jenna Allie Jamie Maddy

2. Has anyone here done anything without thinking?
If so what was the outcome?
Was it good or bad?
Would you do it again?

3. Summary
By: Jenna

4. Summary
a girl acts on impulse and replaces a manikin in a clothing store with herself
right away she feels a sense of belonging standing there frozen as if she was walking
as people start to come an look at her, she feels happy
although her body hurts, she forces herself to stay a little longer in the window to see what other people she will see
most of the people that have come up to her and gawked in wonder

5. Summary continued
at one point she sees her friend and gets scared that she might recognise her but her friend doesn’t really notice her
after her friend leaves two boys coming home from school come up to look at her
one of them thinks that she is real but the other quickly discourages the idea
when they left she laughed and met eyes with a man that had watched her
he smiled at her and with that she left the store moving the manikin back and slipping out unnoticed

6. Character Conflicts
By: Maddy

7. Character Conflicts
Character VS
Society
Character VS
Self 👪👪 👤👤

8. Character VS Society Main Character feels;
Anxious > “what if he saw the family’s honour exposed so shamelessly out on the street” (Khan 100)
Unappreciated > “no one had looked at her so appreciatively before” (Khan 99)
Lonely > “she never felt herself a part of the life around her” (Khan 98)
Unsafe > “she was safe inside the shop window. Where would she find protection outside” (Khan 100)

9. What’s the point Portrays the stories theme
Represents real world conflicts
Helps the reader understand what women are going through in culture

10. Character vs self Inner conflicts;
Insecure > “she certainly had no wish to exhibit herself like this to the pedestrians. . .the thought had never even entered her mind” (Khan 99)
Has to prove herself > “‘just a little while longer’ she told her lips under her breath” (Khan 99)
Rebels against her normal ways > “her feet had again started to protest. . .Scoundrels, stay put!” (Kahn 99)
Has to force herself to make a stand

11. What's the point
Helps us understand why she is assuming the role of a manikin
Reveals how women in indian culture feel
Relates to readers that may have the same problems

12. outcome
“Confidently she strode away, briskly but lightly, happy and satisfied. As though she’d just unloaded the entire pestering weight of her body and soul” (Khan 101)
she was able to overcome fear of hiding within her culture
able to literally stand up in front of her culture and create her own sense of power within it

13. Literary Devices
By: Allie

14. Literary Devices Apostrophe: 2. Situational Irony: 3. Metaphor
”’Just a little while longer’, she told her lips under her breath” (Anwer 99).
2. Situational Irony:
”Confidently she strode away, briskly but lightly, happy and satisfied” (Answer 101).
3. Metaphor
“Standing in the show window she felt a strange sense of comfort wash upon her” (Answer 98).

15. “‘Just a little while longer,’ she told her lips under her breath”
Apostrophe
“‘Just a little while longer,’ she told her lips under her breath”
(Answer 99).
Convince her body to hold on just a little while longer
Shows that this makes her feel safe and noticed
Trying to hold on to the feelings that she feels in the showing case for as long as possible
Wouldn’t give into any of the setbacks her body would give her
Shows she would choose to stay no matter what would arise
Only listening to emotions and not physical state

16. SItuational Irony
“Confidently she strode away, briskly but lightly, happy and satisfied” (Answer 101).
Human that feels more alive as an object
When she poses as an object she feels like she is noticed and feels more confident
yet objects don’t have those feelings and yet that is where she feels more safe
Acting like an inanimate object and feeling at home and comfortable
Feels only way the only way to really be noticed as a women is to become something people will actually notice her by

17. Metaphor
“Standing in the show window she felt a strange sense of comfort wash upon her” (Answer 98).
Comparing the showwindow to her life
Stuck in her own little comfortable bubble
Her life is on the inside of the showwindow and reality is on the outside
Showing the segregation between men and women
Feels as if she cannot find the confidence and the attention outside of the showwindow

18. Main Themes
By: Jamie

19. Main Themes
Women in indian culture are under appreciated, they feel more appreciated being an object
“standing in the show window she felt a strange sense of comfort was upon her” (Khan 98)
“Her tense body gradually became unstrung, and an unprovoked smile came across her lips” (khan 98)

20. Themes Continued
Society's negative impact on women making them feel worthless
“She never felt herself a part of the life around her-” (Khan 98)
“But now she was a grown young women, a college student, smart, sophisticated, urban” (khlan 98)

21. Theme Continued
You have to learn to appreciate yourself before others will appreciate you
The author implies that she does not appreciate herself
While standing in the window she comes to appreciate herself as an object

22. Discussion
By: Jenna

23. Discussion
The young boy that enters the story twice, he was the first to go over to her in the window and he watched her leave
he saw her both as an object and a person and he still had the same , “His eyes seemed to say: Incredible!” (Khan 99), “The youth was still staring at her, perhaps with wonder” (Khan 101)
The main character’s name was never mentioned
she wasn’t noticed outside of the shop window so it seemed fit that as a reader she was left as a stranger

24. Discussion continued
The girl felt more visible in a store window standing still as an object, rather than walking around
this is ironic because she wasn’t doing anything to get anyone’s attention but she got more attention by standing still than when she was outside of the window
most people feel that they get more attention if they are physically doing something
When the two school boys came up to look at her one was saying how she was real but the other called him a “punk” (Khan 100)
dramatic irony was used here, as the reader it was known that she was real and the first boy was right

25. Fun Fact A sari looks like------------------------------>
It is a female piece of clothing that is traditionally worn in the Indian subcontinent

26. One last Question
Why do you think that the main character thought if her brother saw her in the window, he might think that their family’s honour was being exposed?