Everyone needs friends to talk with. However, Grandma has no friends to talk with. She always locks herself from others. Moreover, shoe never shows her feelings and thoughts to people. Living with het innermost feelings of the loss of her husband and keeping a distance from people are the ways Grandma has lived.
But as she walked her final twenty paces, she could not help but wish for more of it” (Pg. 370) This Quote represents that life had been in fact unkind to her, but she never gave up. Through all the beatings, all the death and destruction around her, she had persevered through it all. She was a tough women that sacrificed all she had for the freedom and safety of Laila, Aziza, and Zalmai, The only true family she ever really had. Rasheed- “You try this again and I will find you… and, when I do, there isn’t a court in this godforsaken country that will hold me accountable for what I will do.” (Pg.
Breaking Through In the novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God" written by Zora Neale Hurston, Janie the protagonist is seen by critics as having no voice. For all women silence knows no boundaries of race or culture, and Janie is no exception. Hurston characterizes Janie with the same silence that women at that time & period were forced into, (complete submission.) "Women were to be seen and not heard." Janie spends forty years of her life, learning to achieve/find, her voice against the over-ruling and dominate men in her life.
However, because reader are learning all of the information from her, reader never truly understand why the mother is pushing her daughter so hard to be something she clearly does not want to be. Readers are given very little information about her life or culture in China before she came to the United States. Therefore, the mother comes across as harsh and cruel. When the mother says, "Only one kind of daughter can live in this house. Obedient daughter," the mother seems inflexible, stubborn and even a bit abusive.
For this reason the only women that were able to work were the ones that were the poor women or the members of the lower class in society. They worked as laborers and domestic servants in factories and houses. There also were some that exercised as teachers and nurses especially during the wars periods. Professions such as medicine or law were prohibited to women. As Gail Collins states in his book When Everything Changed “Most girls grew up without ever seeing a woman doctor, lawyer, police officer, or bus driver” (Collins A.W 7).
Source G talks about the daily struggle of a woman living under the Taliban regime. These women can’t even walk outside there house with out completely coving themselves, getting rid of any bit of self expression. Its taboo for women to shake hands with men. A women seen talking to a man is punishable by death. That is just wrong.
Christine was a marter and didn’t mind taking over the project and letting Janet be a loafer. Janet eventually felt like she didn’t play a role and had no contributions to the team. Janet felt no self worth within the group and this carried on to situations at work. Janet needed the support of this group more than ever. Christine thought since the rest of the group was doing well she didn’t need to worry about one member.
However, each in their own way matures along this journey, and gains a better understanding, or knowledge of their lives and themselves. The main character, Sethe appears first as an extremely independent and strong woman, she refuses to accept help from anyone. Which the black community sees as her being stuck up, “trying to do it all alone with her nose in the air” (Morrison 299). As soon as Paul D. arrives on her doorstep, bringing her past with him, her resolve to block out the past at all costs begin to crumble, as do her hardened exterior actions. When Paul D. first arrives, Denver, Sethe’s daughter notices that she is, “Looking in fact acting like a girl, instead of the quiet, queenly woman Denver had known all her life.
Women were not allowed to walk freely. “the daughters were grateful, they never left home.” (Song 10-11) The speaker used irony to satirize that women cannot have the right to determine their own fate as it is their parents to determine on their foot binding. The only thing that they can do is to accept with a “grateful” heart. On the other side of the Earth, another sister escaped to America to seek for freedom. America achieves a higher gender equality.
This quote states that religion and the bible demand women to make great contributions but they aren’t given anything in return. Instead the women are supressed and considered to be inferior to men. This is the same in the republic of Gilead, which is a theocratic society plagued by infertility. In Gilead, women have no rights and their only duty, is the one required by the religion, to bear children. Women have no choice or say what so ever.