Expository Essay Extra-Credit

Prompt:

Guyland is the world in which young men live. It is both a stage of life, a liminal undefined time span between adolescence and adulthood that can often stretch for a decade or more, and a place, or, rather, a bunch of places where guys gather to be guys with each other, unhassled by the demands of parents, girlfriends, jobs, kids, and the other nuisances of adult life. In this topsy-turvy, Peter-Pan mindset, young men shirk the responsibilities of manhood and remain fixated on the trappings of boyhood, while the boys they still are struggle heroically to prove that they are real men despite all the evidence to the contrary.

—Michael Kimmel,
Guyland: The Perilous World
Where Boys Become Men

Write a well-developed essay in which you 1) explain the meaning of the passage, referring to specific ideas and phrases; and 2) drawing on your own personal experiences, observations, and readings, discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the passage.

Due: Submit via email by Friday, May 21 at midnight