Daughters Of The North By Sarah Hall

Generally, when innocence is thought of, the first speculation recalled to one’s mind is the thought of pureness and the idea that the specific individual is free from moral wrong. On the other end of the spectrum is the term known as guilt. Guilt is the emotional notion in which one feels that they have compromised his or her own standards in a negative way. In the novel Sarah’s Key, Sarah frequently proves to struggle with both guilt and innocence. These specific themes are put on display when Sarah realizes she is not going back home, the scenario in which Sarah boards the cattle car to the camps, and the tragic event in which Sarah takes her own life.

Negative characters and positive characters are always in your life regardless if it’s family or friends but you can’t let that interfere in what kinda relationship you want with them. Flowers in the Sky by Lynn Joseph took place in Dominican Republic. Nina Perez was fifteen-year-old when she had to move to New York with her brother, Darrio to have a better life. She learns how to uncover her ability of being independent and making her own decisions. Nina discovers ugly secrets about people who is closest to her but didn’t let them change her. Throughout living in New York Nina finds the true meaning of life. Despite the tragedy of her brother going to jail for selling stolen merchandise she met Luis who changed something that was

Although Utopian societies create an ideal sense of what society should be like, not all Utopian societies share the same beliefs when it comes to overall gender roles. The male may come off as the stronger, wiser individual, whereas the female is the more fragile character in the background. We wonder if the roles could reverse or how can these roles differ in certain societies. In Sir Thomas More’s Utopia, males play the dominant role when it comes to society, whereas in Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy focuses on female-dominated aspects of society.

The poem I chose to do a close reading essay on was, “Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep” by Mary Elizabeth Frye. “Mary Elizabeth Frye (1905-2004) is an American poet who remains known today for a single poem-a sonnet of just twelve lines-but it may be the most popular poem in the English language. “Do not stand at my grave and weep” is a consoling Holocaust poem and elegy with an interesting genesis, since it was written by a Baltimore housewife who lacked a formal education and had quite never written poetry before, and certainly none of note” (The HyperTexts). The tone of this poem is comforting and helps people find comfort with the view of death. This poem uses a lot of imagery, metaphors, and symbolism. Frye’s, “Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep,” is enlightening people how to handle a death of a loved one while using important parts of the theme such as tone, vocabulary, and overall meaning.

The poem “Mothers and Daughters” is written by Pat Mora. Pat Mora is a contemporary award winning writer, who writes for children, youngsters and adults. She was born in El Paso, TX in the year 1942. She attains a title of a Hispanic writer; however, the most of her poems are in English. In her literary work, one can observe the different aspects of the immigrants’ lives such as language issues, family relationships, immigrants’ experiences and cultural differences (1187).

Night is a story that reveals some of the worst of the human race. It is a re-telling of a young Jewish boy, Ellie Wiesel, coming of age in the midst of the Holocaust. The book is quite short and very clearly written, but it is still a very hard book to read. The young boy who is also the author of the book makes us, the readers, accompany him through many in-human and near-death experiences. These are written in such detail that anybody taking the time to read the book will be left with an in-depth knowledge of what we as humans are unfortunately capable of and a desire to contribute in any way possible preventing this part of our history to ever repeat itself. This, I believe, is the authors goal, to teach us, make us aware through his own experience, and hence give us a reason to hopefully prevent it in the future.

"If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman," is a common quote used in the modern day. But just 20 years ago women were still fighting for their rights in America, how has this changed? Well, believe it all starts with women who wanted change, a right to own property or even equal right, it just was taken as unfair. As well as, that a wife had no legal identity apart from her husband, and which put women in a situation realizing they could make things change, started one at a time to become fed up with this arrangement. Circling The Sun by Paula McClain is all about a young named Beryl, who was abandoned by her mother as a child, being left to be raised by her work-devoted father and the native Kipsigis tribe,who share his estate. Beryl grew up to a young women with a fierce love of all things. when the wild child has to grow up, Beryl looses everything she knows and trusts. She is pitched in to a disastrous marriage, Jock Purves, and her husbands intent is to make her life miserable; however she is destined to find a way to her freedom. Trying to find they way she can live and love by her own rules, she charges forward through the unmapped territory of what she think she wants, on a path she finds herself meeting a man, that helps her to find her truest self and her fate. Its a astonishing story of a fearless young women, who extends out past others, to find freedom. Which makes you heart swell; however, Beryl was a women

It must be said that men of power create the structure of life--which is not necessarily profitable or fitting to women, nor to the human race in its entirety. Women do not live in this structure:“They lead beautiful lives--women. Lives not only divorced from, but irrevocably excommunicated from, all reality” (156).

“The basic view that Western Civilization is perversely patriarchal ( ruled by the father), male- centered and controlled.” (class notes) Women have struggled with power when

Patriarchal families are run by fathers, societies by kings or male officials. In patriarchal societies, daughters are less valued than sons. And, in extreme patriarchies women have no legal rights.” (Reilly, pg 26) Although men became very dominate during the agriculture revolution, this was not always the case.

The first example I have about women living in a patriarchal society was just recently discussed in my modern culture class; we discussed women and their roles in the home. The basic average household used to have a workingman, who would come home at the end of the day expecting food, a clean house, and a happy wife. The phrase “happy wife, happy life” was used. Now a days, or at least in my own household, my mother is the hard worker in the family that brings in the central income,

The western civilisation is pervasively patriarchal. It is male-centred and male controlled, and is organised and conducted in such a way as to subordinate women to men in all cultural domains: familial, religious, political, economic and social. Women themselves are taught the process of their being socialised, to internalise the reigning patriarchal ideology that is the conscious and unconscious presuppositions about male superiority. Women live the life of others; they are governed and dominated by male. They follow tradition. Surjeet Kalsey in the poem 'She and He~2' brings forward the mental and physical

Men in black suits, briefcases, shoulders back and a deep voice that you can hear from a mile away is what triggers in my head most when I hear the word ‘patriarchy’. For the majority of the world around us it is predominant in everyday situations. Bell Hooks defines patriarchy as “institutionalized sexism” (Hooks, p ?). The views of patriarchy in our society today differ between writers, genders, age groups, etc. I can speak personally how it has affected me and what I have been accustomed to know; versus what I have been more educated on recently of the different outlooks of patriarchy.

As Mary Daly (1979, p. 39) suggested, “Patriarchy is itself the prevailing the religion pf the entire planet”. In other words, female subordination is rooted in “the patriarchal system” in which men is dominant over women. Besides, dominance feminists also pointed out that ‘traditional family’ and heterosexual marriage are deeply patriarchal in nature as it implies that women are living for men.

According to Brym (2007), patriarchy is “male domination and norms justifying that domination” of women and “is more deeply rooted than capitalism. Radical feminists conclude that the very idea of gender must be changed to bring an end to male domination” (p. 335).