An Unassuming Rebel In Mary Wilkins Freeman's The Revolt Of Mother

Mary MacKillop was born in Fitzroy, Melbourne on January the 15th 1842. She was the first child to Alexander MacKillop and Flora MacDonald. Mary was one child out of 8 and spent most of her childhood years looking after and acting like a second mother to her siblings. The MacKillop family were quite poor so at the young age of 14, Mary got herself a job as a governess and as teacher at a Portland school. All the money Mary earned went towards her families everyday living. While working as a governess, Mary met Father Julian Tension Woods. By the time Mary had reached the age of 15 she had decided that she wanted to be a nun. She also wanted to devote her life to the poor and less fortunate. So upon meeting Father Julian Tension Woods she

period. The book Celia a Slave is a factual interpretation of an isolated incident that depicted

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Social history is an exceedingly broad term as there are many situations and examples that can fall into the group. There are many ideas that concern social history and it may be difficult to recognize them.. Many classrooms, books, and films require the use of social history to teach larger lessons and it is a way to make topics come to life. It is popularly considered as an insight on cultural history, but the definition is still quite vague to a lot of people. Social history is the thorough analysis of a personal story that is focused on a major issue, making it a topic of public interest.

In her story, “Old Woman Magoun” she delivered a feminist message more directly than ever. It’s based in turn-of-the-century New England, patriarchy still defined relationships even though the men themselves had degenerated. The story reflects the realities of Freeman’s own life, as her father’s business failed and her mother became the support of the family. However, Freeman’s life was not unique; rural New England is

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The book “Celia A Slave” starts off with mainly a young black girl named Celia. She get sold in a slave auction to a man named Robert Newsom. This man continually rapes Celia who gets pregnant with his child and gives birth to the child. The sad part is that the child she just had would grow up to be her father’s property later in her life. Then it changes when one day Mr. Newsom attempted to rape Celia again when she accidentally killed him. She then cuts him up and burns his body and attempts to get rid of all the evidence. She ends up be caught and has to go through the legal system to decide if she is guilty or innocent. Celia pleas that it was self-defense which was legal at the time women to kill if their life was in danger but she was a slave and those rules didn’t apply to her. Even thought there were laws to protect women and slave the Judges usually didn’t listen to black women and just did what they thought was right in their case. The judge was also a racist and would not move her execution date back so that they could figure out if Celia was guilty or not but he declined that and left it the same. People end up kidnaping Celia before her date to hang but these efforts didn’t work for long. Celia later ends up being convicted for murder and is sentenced to death. It was never a fair trial in the first place with all the racism in America at the time. It was a long shot that she would

Bigger but not better. The latter half of Bridget Moran’s autobiographical novel, A Little Rebellion, provides examples of how the social work industry has grown through the decades without effecting much change around fundamental issues such as poverty. Moran (1992) examines how privatization and the contracting out of social programming created a “shadow ministry” or “para-ministry” that broadened the scope of services provided (pp. 141-142) while the number of people requiring services didn’t diminish (Moran, 1992, p. 140). As of 1991, nearly one third of the population of British Columbia accessed welfare in the form of income assistance, foster care, and services for people living below the poverty line (Moran,

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The Setting takes place at a farm in New England in the spring and summer of the late 1890’s. Characterization of Sarah Penn (Mother): she exists as a hard working farm wife who loved her husband, but was fed up with him not building a new house for them so she took it into her own hands. Sarah embodies strength in the story, this helps show women of the time that you can do what you want to do even if your husband will not do it. Adoniram Penn (Father): a farmer who ignores his wife's wishes and needs of his family, he appears self-centered and stubborn. At the end, he comes around and the nice and caring side of him begins to emerge.

Throughout the semester we have discussed a few captivity narratives such as: John Smith, Mary Rowlandson, and Cotton Mather. From a personal standpoint, Mary Rowlandson’s captivity narrative was one of the best selections we have read in class thus far. It is a prominent source of biblical encouragement to those of the Puritan religion and some other religions that put God above all human and nature. Throughout the short story, a Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mary Rowlandson, it describes the eleven weeks, approximately around eighty two days, were Rowlandson was held captive. Rowlandson demonstrates how strong her faith is throughout the entire time she was gone away from her family, losing her daughter Sarah and the problems she and the other captives had to face during that amount of time. She keeps her faith through the Lord and he delivers her prays in the end, because she stayed faithful to him.

I analyzed Fanny Fern’s piece “Independence” for themes. It is a very short piece, and it is perfect for a column in a newspaper. I chose this piece because it had a lot of good themes, and the words she wrote spoke so much to me. “Independence” is about how hard it is for women to act independently or to step out of their comfort zone. She stresses how women cannot choose how they want to dress or deviate from the way of how women should act. For example, she says how a woman cannot go out for a night without a hat or dress because women have to dress and act a certain way. On the other hand, men are free to do whatever they want and dress however they please. Her piece states, “Can I go out of an evening without a hat at my side” (McMichael

“The Revolt of ‘Mother’” by Mary Wilkins Freeman, was a story of a woman who lived in New England around or before the author’s time. The mother, Sarah Penn, was kept out of the families decisions by the father, Adoniram Penn, until one event that lead to her taking drastic actions while her husband was gone. There are many religious symbols and actions taken by “Mother” within the story. Through the story Sarah moved from a feeling of servitude to her husband, to a feeling that she was in servitude to the Lords will and this led her, in the end, to hold power over her husband.

This paper will consider how the reference to Sarah functions within the immediate context of the author’s address to women, the larger household code which includes an