{"id":8376,"date":"2015-10-07T20:35:51","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T20:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/capstone\/?p=8376"},"modified":"2025-11-11T19:56:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T19:56:38","slug":"just-write-the-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/thesis\/2015\/10\/07\/just-write-the-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Write the Thing!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meredith Jeffers (AS \u201915) worked with her advisor, Prof. Chris Forster, to complete her Capstone,\u00a0<em>Exposing Narrative Ideologies of Victimhood in Emma Donaghue\u2019s <\/em>Room<em> and Gillian Flynn\u2019s <\/em>Gone Girl.<\/p>\n<p>Meredith&#8217;s project\u00a0examines the interesting narrative perspectives of <em>Room <\/em>and <em>Gone Girl <\/em>to understand the ways that these novels deconstruct mass media narratives of violence to reveal ideas about gender. Her Capstone takes a turn toward comedy when her conclusion looks at\u00a0<em>Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt <\/em>in a brief coda. In this sitcom about a woman who readjusts to life after fifteen years of captivity in a bunker, comedy becomes a device to emphasize resilience after violence.<\/p>\n<p>The best advice Meredith received came from her advisor:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">The greatest advice I received in the past two years, and the advice I\u2019d like to pass along to future students, came from my thesis advisor, Chris Forster, after I lamented about being so stuck and in my head that I thought I\u2019d never finish: <em>Just write the thing.<a href=\"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/capstone\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/09\/unbreakable-kimmy-schmidt-tv-still.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8378\" src=\"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/capstone\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/09\/unbreakable-kimmy-schmidt-tv-still-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"unbreakable-kimmy-schmidt tv still\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meredith Jeffers (AS \u201915) worked with her advisor, Prof. Chris Forster, to complete her Capstone,\u00a0Exposing Narrative Ideologies of Victimhood in Emma Donaghue\u2019s Room and Gillian Flynn\u2019s Gone Girl. Meredith&#8217;s project\u00a0examines the interesting narrative perspectives of Room and Gone Girl to understand the ways that these novels deconstruct mass media narratives of violence to reveal ideas&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advice","category-capstone-capstone-process"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/thesis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/thesis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/thesis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/thesis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/thesis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/thesis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21930,"href":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/thesis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8376\/revisions\/21930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/thesis\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/thesis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/thesis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/thesis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}