Difficult Daughters Novel Analysis

Every person deserves the right to experience a sense of community amongst people who share a common characteristic. A sense of fellowship amongst similar people allows a person to become more comfortable with who they are through interactions with others who are going through—or have gone through—the same triumphs or hardships. Without this feeling of belonging, one could be driven into insanity. Anxiety due to isolation and desolation could run rampant through a person’s mind because of the loneliness that comes with a lack of community—making it an essential part of a humanhood. By definition however, community invites inimitability. Community can be defined as a group of unique individuals with shared characteristics. From that a

In Khaled Hosseini 's A Thousand Splendid Suns, Henrik Isben 's A Doll 's House, and Kamala Markandaya 's Nectar in a Sieve, women face obstacles that disempower and silence them due to Men 's treatment of women, the societal view of women, and the objectification of women. Within the literary works analyzed this semester, disempowerment is a persisting theme that roots from the various obstacles and hardships women encounter. The woman 's ability to overcome this disempowerment is particularly challenging due to being oppressed by their peers, specifically men. Women countlessly serve as victims of verbal and physical abuse under their husbands, thus contributing to the idea of female inferiority. There are various stereotypical roles challenged between men and women in society leading to discrimination of women. The preconceived notions of women 's roles in society arise from those within society. During this time era, most of society depicts women as uneducated, essentially lacking economical and social opportunities, making the female population highly vulnerable to all types of exploitation. Nonetheless, men in these literary works display objectifying and degrading attitudes towards those of the female gender. The objectification of women notably dehumanizes the female population. Within these literary works, the authors exemplify this reality of obstacles that disempower and silence women. Though these women fight for their liberation and equality, they are victims of

Society is often seen to have different biases or perspectives on topics such as the role and perception of women. The short story, “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid, consists primarily of a catalog of commands and instructions, the purpose of which is to make sure that the mother’s daughter is constantly in check and not getting into any trouble. Jamaica Kincaid utilizes a wide range of techniques such as symbolism and diction in order to showcase the theme of how the depiction of women rely mainly on how they present themselves in the public and how they are so easily described as impure or filthy.

Mahasweta Devi’s short story, “Giribala,” is about the life of Giribala, a girl of Talsana village located in India. Born into a caste in a time when it was still customary to pay a bride-price, Giri is sold to Aulchand by her father. From this point on, we see a series of unfortunate, tragic events that take place in Giri’s life as a result of the circumstances surrounding Giri’s life. There are many issues in Giri’s life in India that Devi highlights to readers. First, the economic instability of the village leads to an extremely poor quality of life for the lower, working classes. Next, the cruel role of women determined by men in society is to either satisfy the sexual desires of men or to reproduce offspring who can work or be sold off to marriages. There are also other social norms and beliefs which discriminate against women that will be discussed.

“Being only a daughter for my father meant my destiny would lead me to become someone’s wife”, like Sandra Cisneros illustrates in her essay “Only Daughter”, many women in the Mexican-American culture used to not have other choice in life, but to eventually become someone’s wife. Cisneros focuses on the lives of first and second generation Mexican American females. In her essay, she brings the reader her own life story to support the struggle that many Mexican-American women had to experience at the time the essay was written, and that can still be seen in modern society. In her essay, Cisneros effectively convinces her reader of the difficulties of growing as a female, more specifically, as an only daughter in a Mexican-American family of nine.

Aaaaaaaaaahhhh Why do sisters have to be so annoying? The book Sisters by Raina Telgemeier is like any other sister relationship. When Ranina wanted to be a big sister she could not wait. But when her little sister Amara came she she kind of wished it had never happened. Amara is a very funny ,but she is annoying as ever ,and kind of a big baby. She likes to play a lot ,but she is mostly alone. I can’t say that Raina and her sister have a perfect relationship like sisters should. Later on that year both Raina and Amara get to be big sisters because her brother come along.The hardest thing that happens to any family is the parents having a conflict. Raina’s parents disagree mostly everything ,and they put their fights aside and help make their family better.

    Growing up, did you ever felt left out in your family? Sandra Cisneros wrote the story “Only Daughter” in 1990 for Glamour magazine. She explains her background growing up. Cisneros was raised in a Mexican-American family as the “Only Daughter” with six brothers. The author of this story expresses the lack of unrecognized and accteptance of her father changed her life. Although Cisneros does not have much logos, she is persuasive in how she targets her audience, and expresses credibility and emotion.

A few hundred years ago, gender equality might not have been spoken of. However, in recent years it has become one of the most widely discussed topics. Does this mean that present societies really uphold equality? Humanity's realization of moral values has enabled women to be equal to men and earn high stature within the society. However, there are still women who are born into societies where they are considered inferior and are expected to fill in the traditional roles of a woman such as caretaking and housekeeping. In the book, the Secret Daughter, composed by Shilpi Somaya Gowda, the author explores the similarities between two female characters who are a part of two distinct societies. Kavita, one of the women in the story, is born into

In the story “Two Kinds”, author Amy Tan, who is a Chinese-American, describes the conflicts in the relationship of a mother and daughter living in California. The protagonist in this story Jing-mei Woo’s mother is born and raised in China, and immigrates to the United States to escape from the Chinese Civil War. For many years she maintained complete Chinese traditional values, and has been abided by it deliberately. This kind of traditional Chinese culture has also affected her daughter profoundly. However, Jing-mei is born and raised in the United States. Despite she has a Chinese mother; she is unfamiliar and uncomfortable with Chinese

This paper attempts to examine the fictional projections of Indian girls, to see how they emerge in ideological terms. Their journeys from self-alienation to self-adjustment, their childhood struggles against the hypocrisies and monstrosities of the grown-up world, eventually demolishing the unjust male constructed citadels of power that hinder their progress- are the highlighted issues. The point of comparison between the two novels focused on here is the journey of Rahel in The God of Small Things and Sai in The Inheritance from a lonely childhood to a tragic adulthood passing through a struggle with the complex forces of patriarchal society. Both the novels portray the imaginativeness, inventiveness, independence, rebelliousness, wide-eyed wonder and innocence associated with these young girls.

“He meant siete hijos, seven children, but he translated it as “sons”.” This is one of the challenges the author faced growing up in a mexican-american family. The author speaks about how her culture and the way she wanted to live and be understood were always under conflict. The author is very persuasive because she is a mexican american and is able to find a midpoint between two cultures.

Throughout the history, in all cultures the roles of males and females are different. Relating to the piece of literature “Girl” written by Jamaica Kincaid for the time, when women’s roles were to work in the home. By examining

Miss Rosa describes her niece, Judith Sutpen, as "a woman more strange to me than to any grief for being so less its partner" (120). Judith is a woman well-acquainted with suffering, losing first her mother, then her fiancé at the hand of her brother, and finally her father. She watches her family 's wealth disintegrate as a result of the heavy toll exacted by the Civil War, and eventually becomes accustomed to tending her own garden, spinning her own thread, and weaving her own cloth as the poor would do (125), since the Reconstruction Era showed no discrimination in turning both wealthy and impoverished Southerners into "the poor." Once her childhood has come to a close and the era of desolation has set in, during which she is forced to cope with hardship after hardship, Faulkner begins to consistently portray her as wearing a worn, discolored homemade dress of calico or gingham (plain-woven cotton fabrics). In one sense this represents the poverty that is laying waste to the South and the Sutpen family, but on a deeper level the dress comes to symbolize the deprivation and sorrow which Judith has endured, and specifically her inability or perhaps refusal to emote in response to these tragedies.

We live in a society where the similarities between female and males are seen at birth. It begins innocently with the toddlers; girls get pink while boys get blue. The gap between boys and girls develops with time and becomes increasingly apparent. There are still gender stereotypes today, but it is not as bad as it was in the past. Jamaica Kincaid’s short story “Girl” perfectly portrays gender stereotypes. It represents gender concepts as cultural constructs in the period it was written. These conceptions are comparable to current stereotypes about gender. The book gives us a list of commands from a mother to a daughter. Men in the society are dominant to the women, and the set of rules is a product of patriarchy whereby the mother and daughter appear as subordinates to the men in their lives. The article makes one aware of the prevailing masculine hierarchy that exists in a family, and how it creates firm gender roles for females in the society.

Girls, young women, and mature mothers. Society has consistently given women strict guidelines, rules and principles on how to be an appropriate member of a man’s society. These rules are set at a young age and enforced thoroughly into adulthood. When not followed accordingly, women often times too many face reprimanding through means of verbal abuse, physical abuse, or social exile. In the midst of all these strict guidelines and social etiquette for girls, a social rebellion started among girls and women and gender roles were broken, however the social rebellion did not and does not affect all girls and women. For instance, in less socially developed places, young girls on the brink of womanhood are still strongly persuaded to be a man’s idea of a “woman”.