Fantine's Struggle Of Single Women With Children

Poverty and hardship are shown to create vulnerability in female characters, particularly the female servants, allowing powerful men to manipulate and sexually abuse them. Kent illustrates how poverty perpetuates maltreatment and abuse in a society like Burial Rites using the characters of Agnes’ mother Ingveldur and Agnes. Agnes’ mother is forced to make invidious choices as her children are “lugged along” from farm to farm, where she is sexually exploited by her employers. In spite of these circumstances, Agnes’ mother is commonly referred to as a whore in their society which abhors female promiscuity yet disregards male promiscuity as a harmless character trait; as in the case of Natan, who is merely “indiscreet” despite all his philandering. Born into poverty, Agnes experiences similar sexual coercion and manipulation from her “masters” and yet is labelled “a woman who is loose with her emotions and looser with her morals”. The severe poverty of Agnes is explicitly demonstrated to the reader by Kent through the intertextual reference of her entire belongings - a very dismal, piteous list to be “sold if a decent offer is presented”. Furthermore, Kent contrasts the situation of Agnes, a “landless workmaid raised on a porridge of moss and poverty”, to the comparative security Steina has experienced using a rhetorical question from

Women have always been restricted and society has stereotyped the woman not to do hard labor or work because that is a “man’s job”. At one point The Lottery gives an example of this through children of a young age. The little boys collect the rocks while the little girls are standing aside talking among themselves and looking at the boys over their shoulders. This shows the stereotypical world at a young age. It shows how the world views that women are just supposed to stand aside and gossip to one another

Often throughout the book she mentions that it is said that "you're paid what you're worth", saying that little pay results in you not being to good of a person. With that label they were looked down on and viewed kind of as untouchables. They had low pay, long hours, no overtime pay, and no benefits which leads to low socio-economic-status a job that no one wants to pursue. She stressed that poverty wasn’t a sustainable condition, it's a state of emergency. Citizens in the lower classes are left to fend for themselves and the ten, eight, or six dollar jobs are all that's there for them. What she would encourage them to do is to demand to be paid what they're worth because in the end they will be better off.

Poverty pushes Fantine to make sacrifices throughout the book. She is forced to sacrifice raising her child, Cosette, and leaving her to strangers, because poverty has left her no means to take care of

One example from the book was “according to a 1997 report of the national coalition for the homeless “myths and facts about the homelessness”, nearly one-fifth of all homeless people (in twenty-nine cities across the nation) are employed in full or part time jobs”(pg 26). This explains that the majority of the homeless employees have more than one job in order for them to make it through the next meal or rent. Which relates to the message as to saying that it is not simple to live in the minimum wage class. Another example that conveys the message is “I was raised by Booker T. Washington precept that says: if your going to do something do it well”(pg 18). This means that when you have a job and you depend on that job to give provide you with food and shelter, you must do well on that job in order to contain it, to put all that effort into it because if you lose the job you are in danger of losing not only the job but everything that comes with it. “Though no one, I notice ever brings up anything potentially expensive, like shopping or movies”(pg 36). As provided on the quote the minimum wage employees barely talk about any of their desires because there is no room for that, not enough money to go and do a fun activity. The message is simple, living a life in the minimum wage class is a very difficult state to be in and would take time before you rise above that stage. Although she struggled through

The fact that “poverty disproportionately affects children who live in mother-headed households” (Gestwicki, Page 33) frightens me because having chances of ending up as a divorced mother would give me higher chances of living in poverty with my children. Knowing how my mother raised me, I know that I want the best for my children just how my mother wanted the best for me. Fourth, mothers in the 1960’s got to spend more time with their children. Mothers stayed home, which meant that they didn’t have to look for child care or for anyone to look after their children.

Having moved far from the misery of conventional archetypal women of long back, they think that its hard to stay as housewives. They soon find that their endeavors to accommodate themselves to homemaking just add to their sufferings. When they find that surrendering professional roles does not make them in at any rate happy at home, the female heroines look to escape from their domestic duties too. Giving up their roles as wives and mothers, they swing back to their parent's' homes. The parental homes get to be havens for their fretful souls. There they start their quest for knowledge and for an answer for their private hardships.

The melancholy feel of this ballad was a perfect tone for the story being told. It made the listener feel somewhat concerned with the conditions of poor Black women, even if they never have before. The background singers in this song make the delivery of the poem/song much more passionate. The song in its entirety is trying to convey a message to, not only Black youth, but all young teenagers to take precautions to prevent careless acts and also to take responsibility for the acts they may commit. As 2pac starts out with “I hear Brenda’s got a baby but Brenda’s barely got a brain, a damn shame the girl can hardly spell her name… ” (2pac) he immediately jumps into the middle of the story without telling how she got pregnant from the beginning,

In both the book and the movie, the story is about a housewife who dramatically changes her life. She kicks out her unfaithful husband and starts making a living on her own. Her life’s desire is to win the love of her snobby daughter Veda who “steals her money,

She tells him, “Go away”(39). In another scene, she hits him. The entire tone of the story feels cold towards motherhood. The short story starts out sounding like a fairy tale, “Once upon a time there was a wife and a mother one too many times”(38). This peaks the reader’s interest, as well as foreshadows what the story could be about.

Black single mothers have overall negative stereotypes linked to them, their children, and their financial situation. Single black mothers are getting labeled as Gold diggers, lazy, con-artist, non-supportive, emotionally unstable, and uneducated. To make their reputation even worse most of the songs in the Hip Hop community make hypocritical songs that generalize all single black mothers based on their particular experience. Hip Hop narratives such as “Faith” by Kendrick lamar and “Baby Mama” by Fantaisa, challenges the race stereotypes about co-parenting. Not all Hip Hop songs reinforce the negative stereotypes about single black mothers. Songs like “Faith” by Kendrick Lamar is a great song that represents the struggle single mothers go through.

The protagonist in the story narrates about the life of a couple she hired to work for her. O’Connor talks about the social issues that affected the girl child during the postwar period. The author presents two families, one with two daughters, and the other with one daughter. The woman who hired the couple with two daughters loves the girls because she does not get along with her own daughter. O’Conner writes, “Mrs. Hopewell liked to tell people that Glynese and Carramae were two of the finest girls she knew” (O’Conner, 1955).

The girl distrusts her mother and believes her to be out of touch, while helping her father in "his real work" (468). Surprisingly, the girl's desire to avoid the manifestation of her femininity in womanly tasks, such as cooking and cleaning, influences her into feeling that her mother is "plotting now to get [her] to stay in the house [. . ]. and keep [her] from working for [her] father" (469). The girl chooses to dismiss her mother, thereby dismissing her own future role as a housewife.

Before the Civil War women were a minority. Treated as second place to the “man of the house”. The stories of “Desiree’s Baby” and “Turned” exhibit the social norm of what it was like to be a wife during period in time. Breaking social boundaries, these women set a new example and find their own dominance in the world of men. Written by two different authors, the stories collide with similarities. Such as betrayals of their husbands, the relocation of themselves and their loved ones, and going against the status quo in the “role” of being the wife.

The lyrics from this part of the song also relate to people who are feminists or what Conley writes as “a consciousness raising movement to get people to understand that gender is an organizing principle of life. The underlying belief that women and men should be accorded equal opportunities and respect.” However, everything in this song says that it is easier to be a boy because in a relationship it is easier for them to not care. In turn the song is demeaning the feminists in the world who want to have equal rights or opportunities. Along with those who believe you can put yourself first or make their own rules even if it's not what society deems as an actual rule to fit in. We don’t have to be under men in society, but we can’t just assume that we know everything about boys. Especially for a song that follows the societal norms of what a boy should do in a relationship. We have to see that yes boys tend to do this, but it doesn’t mean you could be any better if you were suddenly that