Josie doesn’t sleep with Jacob because they are different cultures and religions; she believes this to be too important. Josie doesn’t want to end up like her mother. Also because, his father is in the next room. Josie is still grieving over john, and she doesn’t want to do anything rash. 20.
In the story, “Talking Back”, by Bell Hooks, she states how brave and risk taking it was to take a stand by talking back to an authority figure which was usually a male individual. This has become a trend that has been passed on through many generations. It is usually the case because the woman’s role is to stay home to raise the children, cook, and clean while the man goes off to work to provide for the family. Therefore, the man of the house is excused for all of his bad habits. Like, complaining about his meals not the way he wants them to be, clothes not clean or ironed the way he feels they should be, and the house not maintained the way he feels it should be.
She understood that her father only wanted the best for her, but she was discomforted by the idea that her dad was promoting her around and trying to recruit a husband for her. As if she couldn’t find a husband herself. These types of things showed Sayeed that women in her culture did not have much say in who they married or when they were ready to be married, because the father usually sets everything up for them. This was a big inequality between men and women because the women were not even allowed to choose who and when they wanted to marry. Also, women in her culture had to cover themselves up, in order to show modesty and self-protection, which she thought to be an unequal hierarchy.
Billy’s dad for example is convinced in the beginning that men should do boxing instead of ballet and this forces Billy to take ballet classes in secret even if his father is against that. In Bend it like Beckham Jesse is also playing soccer without her parents’ consent by telling them that she is going to work. We also find strong cultural values in both movies which justifies the types of conflict find in them for example in the case of Jesse who wants to practice a sport that in her culture is forbidden for women because in Indian culture women should be at home cooking like her mother and her sister Pinky and not playing with men, and Jesse’s friend Jules also faces the same conflict as her mother wants her to act like a “decent girl” wearing appropriate bras instead of tracksuits bottoms in order to attract men and get a boyfriend. In Billy’s case his social background wants men to be hard workers and follow
ACT III- Beneatha and Asagai “I will go home and much of what I will have to say will seem strange to the people of my village. But I will teach and work and things will happen, slowly and swiftly.” Asagai comes to help the Younger family pack and finds Beneatha questioning her choice of becoming a doctor. She no longer believes that she can help people. Instead of feeling idealistic about demanding equality for African-Americans, she now broods about basic human misery. Never-ending human misery demoralizes her, and she no longer sees a reason to fight against it.
She lives a stagnant life and does not move forward in finding the fulfillment she needs. Although she tried to make conversation that would please her husband by asking him, “Henry, could we have wine at dinner?” and, “Henry, at those prized fights, do the men hurt each other very much?” (p. 636), this is a conversation that would only interest Elisa’s husband and not herself. Elisa seems to have accepted the societal norms of living by the man’s rules. Women in this era had their housewife duties and took care of their husbands regardless of what their needs or wants were. Gender inequality was normal during the time this story was written.
When George realizes that Curley is going to kill l Lennie but not in an unpainful way and slow way, George realizes that the only way to stop Curley from brutally killing Lennie is to steal Carlson's luger and kill Lennie Himself, George knew he was going to die anyway. 15. Curleys wife is not an evil person, she is just trying to get people to notice her. She is lonely because she is forced to stay in the house alone. Curley does not want her to talk to any of the guys working on the farm.
Tom is criticizing the fact that he is not allowed to smoke under Widow Douglas but she herself is. Twain is attacking a problem in our society that exists today. Twain’s thoughts on the “snuff” are irrelevant, but his thoughts on an elder disapproving of something and then doing it themselves are strong. Parents know what is right and wrong. It is their job to make sure they’re kid is under good influence.
R.Evrard was raised having both parents, but that didn't last his whole childhood life. As the interview went on he explained his life struggles and how his parents later got divorced, "that's when my whole view on genders changed." he said. He explained that while his parents were together his views on gender would have been just like any other typical man’s mentality. But as he grew he seen and went through struggles with his mother being a single parent.
Like many feminist writer, Cockerline focuses her emphasis on how social norm discriminate women by inhibit their job opportunities. Throughout the history, social norm restricts women’s power by only allow them to contribute to certain job tasks such as maid, cook, and house keeper. In the beginning of the story, Elizabeth’s father “refuses[s] to pay her school fees” since “his wife had finally birthed a son” directly supports the idea that men are more superior to women. Since education is one of the key elements that lead to better chances of having a job, the narrator eliminates this opportunity to contribute to Elizabeth’s misfortune. Furthermore, the narrator indicates “[i]t can be a hard place for a