-M.Reisz choice of life to not get married and support her ownself was a decision that Edna wanted to live. When Edna develops the relationship with M.R she is intrugied by M.R decision to have her own indpendence. M.R way of life brought out a different side of Edna. A side that Edna knew was the missing part that she kept wondering about until now. Edna wanted this lifestyle to be her ownself and not live as someone she did not want to be such as M.Rag the way that society intended on her living.
They are the ones who find it necessary to relocate and who ultimately lose a sense of community because of their decision to isolate themselves in order to maintain this economic power. Like Heathcliff, Esperanza will only be able to subvert her subordinate position when she moves away from Mango Street and uses her writing as a means to earn a living. Subsequently, Esperanza will one day return to Mango Street and give back to her community, whether it will be monetarily or just allowing bums to sleep in her attic. In Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Linda Brent is constantly resisting and challenging the dominant hegemony of slavery as represented in slave owner, Dr. Flint. Regardless of her position as a female slave, Linda is able to destabilize the dominance of the slave masters by empowering herself with the ability to read and write.
I think Ismene changed her mid because Antigone is her sister and you always stand up for family. She didn’t want to commit the crime because she was trying to talk Antigone out of doing the crime. In the end Ismene is the only one who lives and has a kind of guilt free life. She may not have family left besides Creon but at least she tried to save them. I think out all the characters she made the smarter choices and she thought about the consequences.
The family tradition goes that the youngest daughter of the family must be her mother’s caretaker until she or her mother dies. That means that Tita may not partake in anything that would keep her from fulfilling her duties; that includes marrying. Tita sees this tradition as unfair and she is not afraid to rebel. Esquivel uses magical forms of communication and the symbol of the food in this story to explore how rebellion affects the characters and to suggest that rebellion will lead to freedom. The events,
I wanted to go every place she had ever been”. (Kidd, 14-15) Lily is very connected with her mother even though she is no longer living. Knowing about her mother would help Lily come to peace with the subject of her mother’s death and her own past. However, Rosaleen, Lily’s nanny thinks otherwise. Rosaleen believes that Lily should just leave the topic alone and that she may discover something she just does not want to know.
She didn’t enjoy her time spent there so why she was so willing to come back. Some people never get enough of the life they live even if it‘s bad . Its just like a women who is in a abusive relationship and we wonder why the never leave. Its because once someone adapted to a certain life style the desire for change is slim to none. The narrative made it clear that she didn’t fit in with the people in her town but feared leaving because that lifestyle was all she ever known.
Berniece is blunt about accepting that her life is hard, but she only wants what is best for her daughter. But in order for that to happen, she needs to teach Maretha to reach for better things in life. After her husband died, a local man named Avery has been trying to pursue Berniece, but Berniece feels she is independent and doesn’t need a man. “You trying to tell me a woman can’t be nothing without a man.
In Walker’s story Dee is so far removed from her family and her sister that the story ends with no hope of resolution. While Dee is trying to forget her past and assume a new identity “Not Dee; Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo”, Maggie is happy with her heritage, in spite of her sister judgments and insults “You should try and make something of yourself Maggie… (Walker 1337) It’s a new day for us but you would never know that from the way you and mama live. The story ends with Dee leaving with her new clothes, new name, nose turned up, and a broken relationship with her family. In Baldwin’s story the narrator (Sonny's brother) initially sees little value in his Sonny however as the story progress he realizes that although Sonny may not have the education and material things that he has, he has a god giving valuable gift (Music) “freedom lurked around us ad I understood that he could help us be free if we listened (Baldwin 80).” And in spite of all the negative things that have occurred in Sonny’s life, through music he is able to rise above it all. This realization creates a newfound bond between the brothers and the stories ends with a promise of a new unbreakable
Cassie has been trying to locate her, but had no luck. She also goes around with a lot of men; she really puts herself out there in the wrong ways. Aunt Cassie faces a huge challenge, when she is trying to let go of her past, let go MIA (her daughter), to move on. She tried to find MIA but didn’t succeed, so she finally just let her go. She did it for herself, not only because it is good for her well-being, might she have another baby on the way (as hints were thrown in the book).
Addie wants to be a strong, independent woman but society prevents her from doing so. Addie is the most important character in this novel because she is the reason her family comes together but at the same time she is the reason why her family isn’t a close knit. She made known that she regretted her life, her children rivaled against each other for her love and she had hopes that were never meant to