Analysis Of King 's Work Green Grass, Running Water

Aristotle once theorized, “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” The book, “The Color of Water” describes the lives of James and Ruth McBride and their journeys to find this happiness. Both of these characters, among other characters in the book struggled for the majority of their lives with the issues of race. They felt as if they were caught between two different worlds; the world of blacks and the world of whites. These struggles left all of the characters feeling forlorn. In McBride’s memoir it is made clear that in order to find happiness, the characters must first be able to confront and then overcome the racial divisions that were so prominent in their lives.

In the Middle Ages, the roles of women became less restricted and confined and women became more opinionated and vocal. Sir Gawain and The Green Knight presents Lady Bertilak, the wife of Sir Bertilak, as a woman who seems to possess some supernatural powers who seduces Sir Gawain, and Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Wife of Bath Prologue and Tale, present women who are determined to have power and gain sovereignty over the men in their lives. The female characters are very openly sensual and honest about their wants and desires. It is true that it is Morgan the Fay who is pulling the strings in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; nevertheless the Gawain poet still gives her a role that empowers her. Alison in The Wife if Bath Prologue represents the

In the novel, Song of Solomon, most of the women are mistreated, and men are seen as the superior. This book addresses feminism from various perspectives. Feminism is the advocacy of women's rights on the ground of the equality of the sexes. Throughout the novel, women are not treated equally. Men automatically assume that women will take the “motherly role” and take care of all the children. All the women seem to have to reach this “beauty standard,” or else they will be embarrassed. Most of the women are sexually objectified by the men, also. Overall, it appears that men have too much control of the opposite sex in Song of Solomon. There is only a small portion of women who are independent of men, but those who are get rejected by

Women have always had an impact on men! Mothers, sisters, aunts, friends, wives, or girlfriends are all part of this group of women, and can change a man in many ways. Similarly in the book, ‘The Chrysalids’ the protagonist David Strorm deals with three important women in his life, that have a huge impact on him. They all influence his character, and some help him through his journey, and some create problems for him. The three women, Aunt Harriet (David’s Aunt), Petra (David’s full sister), and Sophie (David’s childhood friend), have always helped out David, and supported through harsh times, and thus they have affected David in a big way.

All throughout the book, many of the women are displayed as very hardworking figures who can get by absolutely fine without a man around, which was a main goal in feminist literature. In the story, Leah says, “Congolese men didn't treat their own wives and daughters as if they were very sensible or important. Though as far as I could see the wives and daughters did just about all the work” (229). This is a way that Kingsolver depicts women as the harder working figures, because all throughout the book, the men do almost nothing and the women do everything. After Orleanna and the daughters have all left and decided to never come back, Leah says, “With no men around, everyone was surprisingly lighthearted” (390). This is her way of saying that now that they were finally away from Nathan, they finally felt free and happy. These examples show how little the men did, and how the women could get along just fine without them in their lives.

Kingsolver uses voice to characterize each sister by giving them a unique viewpoint and narrative. All the girls have different personalities, interests, and speech patterns to distinguish them from each other. The first sister, Rachel, is shown to be an egotist and materialist who's only major concerns are for her well-being and beauty. In the text, she speaks of herself very highly as if she is more privileged than anybody else around her. Rachel is quick and does not hesitate to judge others. She acts snooty towards the Congolese and fails to grasp their culture, only wanting to go back home to her luxurious lifestyle. As shown to not be so intelligent, she has poor grammar and frequently confuses words that have similar spellings and mispronounces

Women usually live life going down either two different paths, the path of being successful or the path of trying to be successful. In the beginning of The Poisonwood Bible, Orleanna introduces to the readers in a third person’s point of view, “The daughters march behind her, each one tensed to fire off a woman’s heart on a different path to glory or damnation” (5). Orleanna, a mother who lives throughout the story of The Poisonwood Bible, acknowledges how women, in great numbers, are found walking down the path of trying to be successful. The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver, involves the Price family of 6, which consists of Orleanna, her husband Nathan, and their 4 daughters. They go on a missionary trip to the Congo in the 1960’s led by Nathan, whose purpose was to spread Christianity in the Congo. Throughout their journey within the Congo, each individual family member faces many hardships. These hardships involve patriarchy. Throughout the Poisonwood Bible, Kingsolver expresses feminist ideologies through Orleanna’s chapters. Orleanna expresses a lot of her thoughts on what she goes through with her family, while connecting to others around the world. Essentially, the reason why Kingsolver expresses these ideologies is because she wants to inform her readers of the patriarchy that existed throughout history, and is still existing today.

The Role of Women in Their Eyes Were Watching God and Go Tell It On the Mountain

The green men of the world are seen as subordinates to their wives. Our main character does not follow the traditional alpha male but is rather conserved and feminine. In fact, as his wife and he do not hold hands as they walk and he states,

In “Green Grass Running Water”, Thomas King uses a variety of syntactical features to emphasize Alberta’s uncertainty towards her dilemma of wanting children and her inability to find a solution. The variety of sentence length and structure in addition to the juxtaposition of long and short sentences establishes establishes her thought process. Longer sentences are used draw out the introduction each option, while shorter ones expand upon the idea as she pounders over the advantages and disadvantages of each. Furthermore, shorter sentences creates a fast paced section, reflecting the urgency of the situation, and hence her panic. Throughout most of this passage, King uses declarative sentences to relay events and move the story forward. However,

The women in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Paradise Lost both had a serious impact over the men in their lives. In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the host’s wife heavily influenced Sir Gawain’s thoughts and strategies through seduction, especially when she offered her girdle. The host’s wife was put there to test Sir Gawain’s loyalty, and he gave in. In Paradise Lost, Eve was beneficial to Adam in many ways. Eve provided Adam with companionship, gave Adam confidence, and also helped convince him to eat the apple. Both women held crucial amounts of power, and effected the outcome in both poems.

In “An Abundance of Katherines” by John Green, a former child prodigy, Colin Singleton has always had a simple life aside from being very intelligent, winning on a tv show and dating nineteen girls all named Katherine. It is the summer after high school graduation, his friend, Hassan and his parents convinced him to go on a road trip with Hassan for the experience. When he is at Gutshot, Tennessee, he meets Lindsey Lee Wells, a confident and sweet girl who got the two a job to stay with her mother Hollis, who is a president of a string company. There she gives them various tiny tasks to do while she is working. Analysis:

Atwood’s work Oryx and Crake is a science fiction story that deemphasizes the importance of a feministic society. Houvouras states that “...individuals who are actively engaged in activities that aim to ameliorate gender inequality” (247) are indeed feminists. This is not seen within the story “Oryx and Crake”, in fact we see that women are put on the back burner for the most part. The lack of feminism is duly noted with characters like: Sharon(Jimmy’s mother), Oryx, and the female Crakers. Women, both in stories and life, generally play the role of being submissive individuals who feel obligated to put others before themselves. These individuals do not know how to identify with a feministic approach to life.

Feminity is different from this novel to reality with the old ways changing of women and how they work. Women have always been considered to be seen as weak but superior. There are many main characters who are women such as Mrs. Joe, Ms. Havisham, Biddy, Estella, and others. These four play major roles with Pip and how they influence him throughout the novel. The women are shown through this novel to be housewife’s while the men go to work. They are seen as women who are supposed to be cooking and taking care of the children. The women are portrayed in this book as women who don’t move from where they live or how they are confined to their homes or the role they play in the households. The men seem to have more freedom in going place to place as they see fit, while the women stay in the home to be housewives.

The Book of Judges narrates six women who are and will always be remembered by their outstanding and remarkable work. They are, Achsah, Deborah, Jael, Japhthah’s daughter, Delilah and the identity of two of them is not revealed. O’Connor (1980) suggests that, “The book of Judges” demonstrates this disparity as observed; women assume a vital function in its set-up as the volume’s subject is “marginalization” (278). Women are well known in three major roles, that is, being a mother, a daughter or a mate. Despite these limited roles, the Book of Judges shows that women are powerful and