Essay: The Orang-utans and the Angry Woman “The Orang-utans and the Angry Woman” is a short story about three women and their way of raising their children. Sheena, who is the main character, raises her two boys without punishment, but by their own intuitions of right and wrong. The second mother in the story is being introducing as the angry woman, it is because she is very aggressive in her way of raising her daughter. Finally, we have the orang-utan mother who is raising her baby by let him learn by his own mistakes. Sheena, who is an ordinary middle-aged woman, raises her children on a casual way.
No chance.” (Hosseini, pg........) It is her father's belief in her education before marriage that leads her to not marry Tariq, and leave Kabul with his family. Her father is also the reason she brings her family back years later to help rebuild Kabul. “There is a part of Laila now that wants to return to Kabul, for Mammy and Babi,for them to see it through her eyes.” (Hosseini, pg 389) Laila's father and mother wanted to see Kabul be restored to its natural beauty and once again
The approach to education is a kind of ‘one size fits all’ method in which the child is expected to be passive. Scout has already been taught to read by her father and the teacher, Miss Caroline is upset about that, thinking it extremely inappropriate. The teacher introduces her new method, ‘The Dewey Decimal system’ without really considering whether it will work for these children in this particular school. She is very confident that she knows best- certainly better than the parents and children. She punishes Scout for not conforming to her idea of what a little girl should be like on her first day at school.
She is a fierce, independent woman who does not need any man. Her independence and headstrong attitude implies that she is having difficulties fitting in with society. Among the suitors she is “famous for [having] a scolding tongue” and would never think twice about marrying her. Instead, they are more enamoured towards her younger sister who is the exact opposite of her sister. It so happens that Petruchio is looking for a wealthy bride and does not care about her behavior.
Janie is a symbol of the modern day women showing that women just want to find a man who love them inside and out. "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Hurston was turned into a movie because it touched almost every person with the many life lessons that she portrayed. The movie gave off a different message than the book because the lack of detail about Janie's insecurities within herself. A big part of Janie's struggle was finding herself. In the book, her childhood was a good example of this because it explained that Janie never knew her skin color until about nine, when she saw a photograph of herself.
When Fowler could not offer marriage, she quickly jumped to Pyles side. He was young and promised a new beginning. When the two men couldn’t reach a decision, Phuong made a decision that gave her the most security. A jump that huge didn't seem to impact her in the slightest, this showing that the person she is around conflict isn't the “fragile, birdlike” creature that Phoung is usually. Another woman taking conflict into her own hands is Malala Yousafzai, a young Pakistani advocate for girls’ education.
Despite Marjane’s religiousness, the headmistress views her desire of becoming “‘...a prophet’” as a negative one, explaining to Marjane’s parents that she “‘...is disturbed. She wants to become a prophet’” giving an ironic outlook on the ideals the school itself holds high (8). Marjane’s aspirations appear as unusual for her age and gender to her fundamentalist superiors; they fear she will tap into a rebellious and almost revolutionary character regardless of her young age. Considering women in Marjane’s country hold little to no social nor political standing, thoughts of individualism or equality strongly offend the Islamic government. Marjane continues to display her differences with girls
These mothers negatively affect their children and those around them, with John Irving suggesting that mothering should be about raising children, not imparting sexual norms. Jenny Fields, the mother in The World According to Garp, falls under the classification of an asexual mother. A nurse who conspires to have a child with one of her terminal patients, her life’s philosophy is that she “wanted as little to do with a peter as possible (12)”. Jenny raises Garp as a single mother, and rails against lust her entire life, saying “Lust makes the best of men behave out of character (131)”. She is a feminist, though she is quick to avoid the label, as all of the women who are feminists in the novel are simplistic extremists (Doane 2).
The narrator is still a person who is sure of herself; she has grown up and proves it, when Jed told/texts that he drove his wife insane because she wasn’t our narrator, and she didn’t reply, because she knew she can’t be stuck in her past, and can’t go back to her high school love life. She has a grown-up life
Maggie has an authentic education of her heritage but does not have any formal education. Mama states when Maggie reads, “she stumbles along good naturedly but can’t see well. She knows she is not bright” (Walker 478). When it comes to Dee, she can read perfectly because she went to school unlike her mother and sister. Mama can’t help but feel ignorant compared to her daughter Dee.