Invisible Narratives Aren't That Invisible Anymore

The previous English class I took before this one wasn’t a good learning experience for me. My teacher just told us to turn in our papers without really explaining or teaching us anything else. Don’t get me wrong the guy was nice, but I wish I would’ve learned a lot more. When I entered into this English class, I didn’t know what to expect. But once the lessons began I realized that I never had an English class like this. The lessons actually taught me what invisible narratives were and how manipulating there are. I didn’t expect to learn this. Normally a student enters a English room expecting to learn about paragraph formation or how not to use the word “I”, but I was completely wrong.

This class has definitely made the invisible narratives, finally visible for me. It was incredibly interesting how many invisible narratives there are in the world. The two invisible narratives that stuck in my heard from this class was that most of the quarter backs are white and that a doctor is most of the time concerned of the male gender. This was crazy because I never realized these things and they are right in my face.

At the beginning of this class we were asked to write our beliefs. My first thought was to write about god and the belief I have for the bible. Once we began the class we had a couple conversations about the bible and how we use it a lot in daily life. For instance, we use the words as if we have to live by every word. In the bible it says that women have to respect men while men love women. I took this as if males have to be more superior but why does it have to like that. I am religious but I don’t know why the bible and society has also created the belief that men have to be the head role in a relationship. I believe it should be equal and I didn’t realize that until this class. One invisible narrative that is relatable to this is the Egg and the Sperm article we read. This article was basically saying how the egg relies on the sperm and this article was one of the many examples of how gender roles are depicted.

I have realized that I do carry many invisible narratives with me, but now I believe that I am more careful with what I read or with what I say. Invisible narratives were beginning to become natural to me until this class because I now know how to detect them.

I can lessen this impact of these narratives for other people and myself by making sure I am not blind anymore. By carefully analyzing things I believe this will help a lot of people detect an invisible narrative. I can also share my knowledge that I have learned by letting a person know when they simply don’t detect a invisible narrative.