Hilly treats her mother with no respect and sends her to a nursing home. Although Hilly is very demanding, she is in control and gets what she wants. In Jackson society, there are “rules” of what black woman can or cannot do. It is like they live in a completely different world. Whites and blacks are not supposed to be friends because of a “line” that exists that separate them.
Women were part of the minorities along with the blacks because of the way they were treated. They were treated less than men because they seemed weak and useless. They did not have freedom in the Twentieth century. In work, they were paid less and they ought to be stay at home wives. The women’s rights movement was known because of the way that they fought for what they deserved.
The beauty standards of white Western culture, the sexual abuse of Pecola by her father, and Pecola’s low economic status have multiplicative effects on Pecola and all aid in her progressive alienation from society as well as her fall towards insanity. Deborah King states that “the experience of black women is assumed to be synonymous with that of either black males or white females” (King 45). It is mistakenly granted that either there is no difference in being black and female than being generically black or generically female. The intensity of the physical and psychological impact of racism is very different from that of sexism. For example, the group experience of slavery and lynching for blacks, and genocide for Native Americans is not comparable to the physical abuse, social discrimination, and cultural denigration suffered by women.
She compares it to a movie plot “where the main character has to give up her identity to be accepted by the popular, more powerful group. Or the one where the main character realizes he just isn’t like any one around him, and so is outcast” (47-48). While she is promoting the business of renting black people’s time to white individuals, she also appears to be mocking whites for participating in the practice. She describes the perfect prospective renter as having “a sense of entitlement,” “a well-rooted double standard,” and “an unwillingness to educate [themselves]”
Alongside the sense of personal identity humans also have a very evident urge to belong to a group that share similar aspects on oneself and life. These out looks can be either positive or negative. People who have a strong sense of belonging usually have a strong sense of personal identity giving them comfort which allows them to express themselves. However sometimes individuals feel out casted and isolated from others due to their upbringing and lifestyle and find it difficult to experience a sense of personal identity and therefore also belonging. Belonging and being accepted into a group can have both negative and positive effects on an individual’s sense of personal identity.
The relationships we have with others are the biggest factors that make up our identity and change who we are and how others view us.Our identity can be affected by those that surround us. We play different roles in the relationships we have, whether it'd be with your with our family, our neighbors or with our friends. Relationships are grown on similar interests and common thoughts and within each relationship, an identity grows similar to those who we spend our time with and this is what gives us a sense of belonging. We then become a part of a group that therefore leads to how we are seen through others. My religion brought me up to be who I am today.
The same has made the women to lose hope and resulted in giving up on men. This system is considered as a vital cultural value among most of African tribes when in actual sense should be abolished and termed out casted for the betterment of poor women and children who are raised under the same bubble. In conclusion woman expectations in many African communities is a huge dilemma which has made a few successful by getting good education and getting married in modern setting and the rest perishing as wives with kids who have no basis in life. This kind of marital injustices should be declared a national disaster in most of the
For instance a family bounded by fundamentalist values or a school regulated by strict rules can conflict with individual freedom. This is evident in the film “Skin” where Sandra, the protagonist is forbidden by her father to see the person she loves, because of their skin difference. It is also evident when the school she attends isolates her from the rest of her peers and mistreats her. Sandra as a character was hindered by her family and government from developing her own identity; she was faced with an unfortunate circumstance in an unfortunate era to appear colored, and as resulted she does not come in to terms with her identity. A media that chooses to broadcast propaganda is also a repressive institution that limits freedom of information.
The Struggle for Society’s Acceptance Be careful what you wish for. In the novel The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, a young colored girl named Pecola and her race are rejected by their community based on their physical appearance. The belief of Pecola’s time label black people ugly and different. To be beautiful, it is mandatory that one posses pale skin, yellow hair, and blue eyes. Brainwashed by society’s standards and demeaned by the white race, the black population struggles to fit the stereotypical image of perfection.
I think that she could've left for three reasons; Her childhood was not good, her father was an alcoholic and treated both Eveline and her mother with disrespect and cruelty, as well as her being forced to take care of the family when her mother died. My first reason that Eveline could've left was because of her terrible childhood. In the story Eveline is described as poor and probably does not have a very comfortable life. Eveline's struggle for money is constantly mentioned in the story. There are very specific details that show how miserable her life is.