This book is about a girl named Maleeka. She is bullied because of her very dark skin. Maleeka soon becomes ashamed of her own self. She is also teased about the clothes her mom makes for her, since her father died and they now are poor. So Maleeka turns to Charlese Jones, a girl who you don't mess with and who always wants to be in control.
Only in the ³Pashtun regionsin the south or in the east near the Pakistani border [were women] rarely seen on the streets andonly then in burqa and accompanied by men´ (121). Mariam grows up in the eastern city of Herat, and although women there are relatively autonomous, Mariam is deprived of enjoying thatequality because of the imposition of Nana¶s cynical beliefs concerning men and society, suchas, ³A man¶s accusing finger always finds a woman´ (7), or ³they¶ll laugh at you in school. Theywill. They¶ll call you
Mattie I believe was very spoiled by her father and sheltered as well. She did have a sense of the outside world as many young girls explore at a young age, she was not given that option. I think the reason for her doing what she did was because she was so sheltered and thought that she could make her own decisions but her own decisions got her mixed up in a situation leaving her basically alone to take care of her son. I believe that her father abandoned her because she went against him and made her own decisions. Etta was a character who did not settle down with a man, she was very free spirited.
Gender Roles In Society Though girls and boys are known to specific “boundaries,” they should not be expected to act completely different from one another. Society puts down females day by day just because they don’t “act like girls.” But what really does it mean to “act like a girl?” Every person, regardless of gender, is a representative of the human race. So, should girls of today be ignored, held to implausible standards, and forced to deny their true personalities? Girls are often ignored and treated differently than guys. In Chapter 5 of Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout reflects on her summer and how she spent the majority of it without her brother Jem and their friend Dill.
Despite Beli’s past with an adoptive family, living with La Inca should have been great. Like the typical Dominican teenage girl, beli is boy crazy, but even more so than the others. She is defensive and overreacts, cause no one around school seems to like her. Even though she lives what one would call a fortunate life in an upper-class family, Beli does not want to live within these standards and yearns to escape from the Dominican Republic. Beli has taken her rebellion so far as to have sex with Jack Pujols, something everyone shunned her for especially La Inca.
Sandra Cisneros has presented many events and characters that show us how Esperanza changes day to day. Some events are small and have little effect on her, and others impact her life greatly. Major turning points in Esperanza’s life include when she wears high-heeled shoes with some of her friends and discovering her sexuality, being raped by some boys at a carnival, and the friendship she had with Sally impacted her life greatly. Throughout The House on Mango Street the reader learns that Esperanza’s name actually has a negative connotation, since all she has is hope. Nothing else, but
She understood that the fighting between gangs was useless, because every kid was an individual, not just a unit in a group. She wanted to write about boys because, she says, at that time girls didn't do much. They waited around for their boyfriends, concentrating on their hair and makeup. She didn't want to be that way, so she spent time with boys and wrote about them. She felt that the books for people her age lacked realism.
She refused to wear it and her father accepted that, but he believes that she will one day go through her religious awakening. When she was in her teenage years, she was only allowed to wear shorts during sports, but other than that she had to cover up her arms and legs completely. Sayeed was looked down on since she was more masculine than most women because of her athletic abilities and she wasn’t a petite lady. Her mom wanted her to wear make up and beautiful Indian jewelry, but she rather loved playing sports, admiring sports figures and reading books. She was far from what her mom wanted, which was a Bollywood princess.
She was already thinking ahead to the things she would do as an independent woman. “There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature. A kind intention or a cruel intention made the act seem no less a crime as she looked upon it in that brief moment of illumination” (Meyer, 2012, p. 15). In “The Yellow Wallpaper”, Jane was struggling to have the men in her life take her seriously. She was struggling with what I interpreted as post-partum depression.
Marie weren’t treated nice by her dad and her cousin, and she is described quite like a girl who’s living on her own. Under these conditions, she needs to draw some attention from children at the same age. An example: Very loud, Maria asked Rachel if she ever had done it (having sex). She asked just in order to get some feedback or attention from the group of boys surrounding them.