SAMPLE Paragraph on Le Guin

Student NameStudent Last Name 1Erin ChurchillEnglish 603-HSD-VA 18 February 2014Sample Paragraph on Le Guins She Unnames ThemUrsula K. Le Guins short story She Unnames Them, explores the power that words have to confine people in limiting categories. This idea is explored though the narrator, Eve. After relinquishing the animals from the hierarchy placed on them by their names, Eve comments that [t]hey seemed far closer than when their names had stood between myself and them like a clear barrier (Le Guin 27). Eves feelings of separation characterize her as someone acutely aware of the categories that names create. Furthermore, she applies this namelessness to herself by returning her name to Adam thereby renouncing the power given to her (Le Guin 27). By abandoning her name, she is abandoning her power and therefore succeeds in eliminating the hierarchy of man in the natural world. She is then able to join this new classless society that she has created. Lastly, as she goes to leave the what is alluded to as the Garden of Eden and turns to explain her actions to Adam, she realizes that I could not chatter away as I used to do []. My words now must be as slow, as new, as single, as tentative as the steps I took going down the path away from the house (Le Guin 27). Eve has become intensely aware of the power of words and has fully accepted a new life of thoughtfulness in expression. Therefore, Le Guin suggests that our command of words does not necessarily translate into seriousness of thought. Considering this, what Le Guin offers, through the characterization of Eve, is an exploration of the complexity of the association between the words we use and the hierarchy created in the human and natural world. Works CitedLe Guin, Ursula K. She Unnames Them. The New Yorker. 21 January 1985: 27.Print.