Story of the partiular lesiban/gay struggle in the latino community, which didn't get drection attention during the early 1990's movement enlightening and releasing stereotypes in the gay community in new york Luna and Medea explore what it means to be a woman, medea through her relationship with her children, luna through her "castration" Explores the ways in which Latina women have explored particular difficulty in the fight for equality between straight and lesiban, and women and men. The interactions of Luna and Medea play upon the story of Medea, a woman who drowns her own children after her husband decides to marry a younger princess. Her actions are in a sense, simply to get back at Jason, who has robbed her of her sense of feminity, youth, and sexuality. Moranga's Medea plays a much different story. Medea's story if one much different, when her marriage is interrupted by a lesiban love affair that lasts some seven years.
She lives in her mind, barley speaks to anyone. She spends most of her time analyzing all the things around her life. She wants to tell someone how she feels but is scared that she might get rejected or no one will believe her. “I can’t believe you, you’re just jealous.”(184) when she finally tells one of her former friends from the party who is now dating Andy Beast, what happened and the reason for her calling the cops she lashes out and does exactly what she was afraid of. In reading and studying “Speak” By author Laurie Halse Anderson , my character analysis has taught me how Melinda dealt with her problem and what she went through to get her life back…it also taught me to choose my friends carefully and that keeping your anger and pain bottled up can hurt you more than you know.
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson has the potential to shape a reader, this is because it tells the story of a girl named Melinda who cant speak up about the horrible thing that happened to her. This lack of communication leads to a break down of her relationships and it is only because of the attention of a great teacher that she began to heal. Melinda is greatly affected by what happened that unforgettable night at the end of the summer before her freshman year. When enters the 9th grade she has no one to talk to because all of her old friends now hate her. At this point people already start to bad for Melinda.
Rayona hates it more than anything that when she goes anywhere, people poke fun at her and make racial remarks to her which makes her feel insecure about herself. When Ray meets Foxy for the first time, Father Tom introduces her and Foxy says, “Your Christine’s kid…The one whose father is a nigger” (Dorris 44). Not only does Rayona have to deal with racism her mother is always putting her in bad situations. There has been quite a few times where Christine has attempted to leave Ray and told her that she wanted to commit suicide. One time in the very beginning of the story Elgin goes to visit Christine in the hospital, Rayona had not seen him in 5 months and Christine did not want to tell him about her sickness.
The first reason is that because Abigail Williams is extremely manipulative and vindictive. Abigail tries to get Procter to pity her saying, “You loved me, John Proctor, and whatever sin it is, you love me yet! John, pity me, pity me!” (Miller 22). Abigail wants Procter to pity and give her what she wants, regardless that his wife caught them once and can catch them again. Another reason their relationship is dangerous is that if John Procter were to prosecute against Abigail Williams saying that she is in fact a witch, Abigail Williams could very easily tell the entire town that she and Procter have been having an affair to get revenge on him.
After the trial Scout overhears Mrs. Gates, her third grade teacher, talk to someone about how it is about time someone put those black people in their place. Then during class Mrs. Gates talks about how she hates Hitler for being so cruel to the Jews when they have not done anything to deserve it. Scout hears all of this and does not understand, so she talks to Jem, “…how can you hate Hitler so bad an’ then turn around and be ugly about folks right at home” (249-250). She knows that it is wrong to treat colored people wrong, and what Hitler is doing to the Jews is wrong. We learn that Scout understands what is right and what is wrong.
The book I am the Messenger, by Marcus Zusak, is a perfect example of how empathy can help people become caring. In this book, there is a woman who constantly gets raped by her husband. The main character, Ed, dislikes this woman because she’s snobby, up until he realizes that she uses her attitude as a defense mechanism against people she meets on the street out of fear that they’ll harm her. In the book Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell, the main character gets stranded on an island all alone. At first, she is very hurt that the people of her tribe left her, but then she realizes that they couldn’t have waited for her, or they would’ve missed their opportunity at a new life.
Suu Kyi, in her feministic speech, Keynote emphasizes of the uneven distribution of power between the genders through a personal anecdote, “Last Month, I was released from almost six years of house arrest”. She positions herself in a dire situation as her experiences with sexual discrimination within Burma have awakened herself in representing the women community. The responders will become sympathetic towards Suu Kyi, hence, being emotionally attached and intrigued. Margaret Atwood utillises pathos in regards to humour unlike the compassion generated in Keynote in order to reinforce the fact that the portrayal on women in literature is mistreated. She mocks the nonsense remarks towards her literature through the biblical allusion, “this is a matter which should more properly be taken up with god”, emphasizing how it is a matter outside the range of power.
She befriended a black male student during one summer and people gossiped and spread rumors about the relationship, the price she paid was her reputation and her dad almost losing his job. As Weaver relates racial slurs and bias are not exclusively against black people; and shown in this heated image “one day in school [she] witnessed an altercation between two black girls and attempted to stop their fight; [she] was told to “mind [her] own business. We do not need you soda cracker; go back to your own kind” (222). Physical desegregation does not override the bias felt by some
Symbolism In a Jury of her Peers, Susan Glaspell creates a story which demonstrates how women were marginalized and treated without significance. In her story the narrator never comes right out and states who killed Mr. Hale. Yet as the story develops it is almost certainly Mrs. Wright who committed the murder. Glaspell uses many symbols as a vehicle to illustrate the turmoil and pain Mrs. Wright was in: the burst jars of jelly, the knotted quilt and most importantly the caged bird. Charlotte Perkins Gilman authored The Yellow Wallpaper, and writes a somewhat autobiographical tale about a woman who is slowly descending toward a mental breakdown.