Comparing Daughter Of Earth, And M. Butterfly

The passage Lesson for Women is a work done by Ban Zhao that goes into detail on the proper ways a lady should act. Not only does the author explain the ways but she also goes into detail to help others understand what it’s like for a woman of that time period. When writing the author provides us with detailed sentences and a lot of informative material. Over the course of this essay we will be breaking down the key elements of this passage to fully understand it.

It delves into the issues we have faced as a society in the past and how they are affecting this generation. Thomas Hodge feels left out of the black community because his parents raised them in an upperclass neighborhood, but he feels that the white people don’t except him because of his skin color, while also stereotyping him into “the average black man” category. In M. Butterfly we see how jumping to conclusions can end with drastic consequences. Song Lilling, is a performer in China, at the time women were not allowed to perform on stage so, men filled the roles.

Set in rural China in the early to mid 1800s, historical context plays a major role in defining the value placed on women by their society. Seen from the beginning, a young girl in a family acts only as a burden on them by being an extra mouth to feed and less valuable than a son. Young women at the time were only given value based on who they married, whether they had sons, and if they followed the conventions set before them. The main character, Lily states that her mother looked at her as “a temporary mouth to feed and a body to dress until I went to my husband’s home” (See 12). By setting the stage of the time period, See defines the role of women as child-bearers first, and servants to her husband’s family second. Despite protests to that idea in contemporary times, women then understood their roles as being miserable so that their children may one day succeed. Pain and convention controlled a woman’s everyday life, such as, “When a girl, obey your father; when a wife, obey your husband; when a widow, obey your son” (See 24). Women held the lowest status in the social

In The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls one of her experiences with poverty that struck me the most is when she and her little brother go eat chocolates from the dumpster because their fridge is empty. When they came home and since there wasn’t any food in the fridge they went out behind a building to look for bottles. They would use the bottles for money. Both of them would go in the dumpster to look for bottles but instead they found chocolate. These chocolates had some mold but they still ate it. After that they began to come back if they couldn’t find anything to eat at home. It’s very upsetting how Jeanette and her brother had to find their own way to eat because her family couldn’t provide them food. Also that the mom could care less about feeding them because she knows she can’t do anything about it without having money.

Women did not have any power in Chinese culture. Kingston describes how a man intimidates her aunt by telling her that he will beat and kill her if she tells anyone. It shows men dominance over women because the man is making Kingston’s aunt do anything he wants. In paragraph fifteen, “women in the old China did not choose. Some man had commanded her to lie with him and be his secret evil” (623). It adds to how women in China did not have any voice and were supposed to comply with any thing men said. Women had to be protective mothers. Kingston states, “as a last act of responsibility: She would protect this child as she had protect its father… mothers who love their children take them along” (629). This quote means that women would protect their children and always look out for the best interest for them. Women had to provide food for their family and their gods. In paragraph thirteen, “she plants vegetables gardens rather than lawns; she carries the odd-shaped tomatoes home from the fields and eats food left for the gods” (622). It shows one duty of women in Chinese culture and the role they had to follow.

My first example is that she takes care of her older brother because he has a disability with his head. “ All I have to do in life is mind my brother Raymond, which is enough,” said Squeaky. People might think that she is being nice to him because she is forced to but I think that she is just being caring out of the blue , because people are not forced to be nice. Another example is that in, “ Thank you m’am” Mrs.jones gave the kid ten dollars which in modern day is like 100 something dollars just so he could buy some, “ Blue suede shoes.”

Furthermore, this is about how she has been in poverty ever since she was a little girl, how it evolved her, and made her the type of person she is. Poverty: This starts off while Ms. Anne Moody was a little girl her father

The theme of “voiceless woman” throughout the book “the woman warrior” is of great importance. Maxine Kingston narrates several stories in which gives clear examples on how woman in her family are diminished and silenced by Chinese culture. The author not only provides a voice for herself but also for other women in her family and in her community that did not had the opportunity to speak out and tell their stories.

Based on Lessons for Women, women in the China were taught that they were unworthy, unsophisticated, unenlightened and by nature unintelligent. (Strayer

Nelson Mandela once said, “Poverty is not natural it 's man-made.” This quote states that a person can overcome poverty if one has the desire to live a better life. In a novel called Poor People written by William T. Vollmann, the author travels around different countries and places to learn about poor people and to get a global perspective view. While interviewing different kinds of people, Vollmann would ask them one question: why are you poor? Looking at people 's answers Vollmann noticed that some of the people gave quite interesting answers. Vollmann went through a lot of situations where he just couldn 't imagine what life would be if he was ever to live like that. Another novel that has a similar poverty situation is called Let The Water Hold Me Down, written by Michael Spurgeon. Hank, the main character of the novel, experiences a tragic moment in his life. Losing his wife and daughter while drowning, this tragedy left him feeling like it’s all due to his miscarrying about them. His life becomes full of sorrow, and the only way out it was to go to Mexico to his friend’s place and restart his life over. In a new country of Mexico, this story takes place. Even though he had money, a house, and friends’ support, he still experienced lots of pressure trying to survive in Mexico. Poverty has different meanings in everyone 's lives but by reading these two novels, there are three similarities that can be made about people living in poverty.

8. In what different ways did Japanese and Korean women experience the pressures of Confucian orthodoxy?

The Working Poor Invisible in America by David K. Shipler revolves around the underprivileged men and women living in America. It is a set of life stories told by the poor individuals mentioned and interviewed by Shipler throughout the book. They tell their life stories including the environment in which they grew up, the hardships they have faced since leaving home including the difficulty of sticking with a job for more than six months, and how they survive making minute annual incomes. Out of the people featured in the book there were numerous categories for different people and their ways they became deprived of financial stability; these include individuals whose bad luck developed when they grew up being physically, emotionally, or sexually

Maxine Hong Kingston’s novel The Woman Warrior is a series of narrations, vividly recalling stories she has heard throughout her life. These stories clearly depict the oppression of woman in Chinese society. Even though women in Chinese Society traditionally might be considered subservient to men, Kingston viewed them in a different light. She sees women as being equivalent to men, both strong and courageous.

The oppression of women has been brought into light in the recent years but it was the norm in many societies in early history especially in premodern east Asia. During that time, the roles of men and women in society were determined by great scholars that had the power to get their voice to be heard and set general rules in society. In China, scholars like Confucius, Mencius, and Mozi had great impact on the way people divided the roles between men and women. The overall oppression of women in premodern east Asia can be seen through quotes from great scholars about how women should be obedient to men, should not make important decisions in their families, and are not spoken of equally to men in society.

Like the Analects, Ban Zhao's writings do not attempt to address what is right or wrong about society and the role of women within it (Ban Zhao, Lessons for a Woman, 1). Instead, she blames the lack of female education on the ignorance of men, and maintains that although men understand their own place in the society, they fail to realize that the complementary role of women is one that must also be taught (Ban Zhao, Lessons for a Woman, 3). Her writings serve to rectify this