50 words!?

So my writing teacher told us to pick a scholarly article and to do a "textual analysis." She said to start our "textual analysis" by summarizing the article in 50 words. 50 words? 50 words!? My first sentence (ONE sentence!) is 53 words. I hate obligatory writing classes. I hate this. My first sentence was, "In her article “Be(e)ing and ‘Truth:’ Tar Baby’s Signifying on Sylvia Plath’s Bee Poems,” Malin Walther Pereira asserts her claim that a critical reading Sylvia Plath’s Bee Poem sequence (a sequence consisting of five poems) through Tony Morrison’s ant colony metaphor in her novel Tar Baby shows Plath’s limited, white perspective on feminism." Do I really need to take a writing class with freshmen? PC said I didn't have to, but apparently at URI even English majors can't write.