Frontiers Of Love Themes

In conclusion, this short story gives an insight into the racial segregation and the mutual hatred between two races, which continues in a vicious circle of never-ending hate and revenge. “Pay Back” is a prime example of the consequences of such a conflict as well as it illustrates that the hatred is primarily based on ignorance and lack of knowledge on account of strong

Many immigrants have a unique story that may reveal the reason for entering another country. Often, this decision leads to a desire of starting a new life in a country that has beyond opportunities to offer. Much like in the stories “A Proper Goodbye” by Katherine Vlassie, “Ajax la-bas” by Yeshim Ternar, and “Nach Unten” by Janice Keefer all give insights to the lives of immigrant women and the hardships they go through. In these short stories, the experiences of the women in minority groups unite them in a way that the inability to learn a new language for whichever reason, limits them from developing as an individual, reinforcement of their fears, and are oppressed by society thus affecting their daily lives.

Maya Angelou and Amy Tan discuss religious problems and culture differences in their literature. The authors have captured these differences by their past experiences of friends and family. Both authors come from a diverse culture, but both face the same harsh society of the American culture and beliefs. The Author's both tell about situations in their short stories of being outcasts and coming from different racial backgrounds and trying to triumph over these obstacles. Angelou and Tan both have a very unique writing ability and style in their short stories.

Compare the views of these two scholars by answering the following questions. Be sure to find specific examples in the selections to support your answers.

Today I will be comparing the experiences between two young people growing up in Australia. The two stories are "The Left Hander" by Oodgeroo Noonuccal and "Destiny" by Shalini Akhil. One is about a girl who wants to become Wonder Women but she has to alternate it because she is indian (Destiny) and the other is about a girl who always used her left hand but when she was noticed to use it, she was punished(The Left Hander) . Both authors focus on two memoirs Clash of Culture and Belonging v isolation, However these have different perspectives, "The Left Hander's" Perspective is negative whereas 'Destiny' has a positive perspective. "The Left Hander's" setting is during school, the girl was just sewing in the classroom and after the teacher saw she was punished. "Destiny's" setting is at home with the persons grandma talking about an alternate way of being wonder women. Both texts

This essay will touch upon both characters and elaborate on the idea of society alienating two brilliant minds.

Literature is the window to realizing the negatives of society and how destructive certain norms can be. Readers are brought into a completely different story than their own, but by using similar issues in today’s world, the readers can actually learn from the story and its overall message. All writers write for a purpose, whether it’s for a new meaning to life, to live a different life than our own, or to impact others on an emotional level by teaching them to see the importance of the little things. As a reader, you search for pieces of literature that interest you whether you find the story like your own, or wish you lived the life in the story. By using issues in today’s within their works, authors are able to grab the reader's attention long enough for them to get across what they wanted to get across. Often in many works of literature, writers use societal issues as their basis for the work’s themes and symbols. By doing so, this allows the reader to question the morality behind social norms and how impactful certain ideals can be in people’s lives.

For centuries, a great deal of ethnic groups have been disempowered and persecuted by others. However, one should realize that none are more intense than the oppression of women. In the novel, The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros, women living in the Mango Street neighborhood suffer from their restricted freedom. Three such women, Rafaela, Mamacita, and Sally, provide great examples. All try to escape from their dreadful environment. Most of them fail, but at first, Sally seems to succeed in escaping from her father. However, she ends up meeting a husband as equally bad as her father. Ultimately, the men who live with Rafaela, Mamacita, and Sally act as insuperable obstacles that limit the freedom in their women’s lives.

“The two authors are historically known for their work for establishing as well as clarifying the ideas of general men in terms of response to their government. Both the authors work on the same time, however presents a bit different explanation of their philosophies.”

This memoir reminds me about my culture in a sense. I would like to point out a difference between race and religion. Me, personally, I’m an Arab Muslim. In my religion, sex before marriage is forbidden, and those who do it are a huge disgrace because its haram (forbidden), and will result in a major punishment by god. Of course, in many religions, adultery is also forbidden, such as in Christianity, but sex before marriage is still highly common; at least in the west. Now, thinking about what happened to “No Name Woman,” I can relate to what could happen to a Muslim if one did what she did. Although the differences here I believe is religion. For example, If I was just Arab, and not Muslim, having sex before marriage wouldn’t be such a major

The rest will be presented further on in my essay. But before presenting my points id like to give you a brief idea of the two books and their writers.

who were in love were seen to live in harmony and this gave golden age writers,

One of the major connections between the two works is the relationship between morality and the state. Both differ widely on where morality comes from and whether the state’s origin is from

One way or another, these stories are related to their individual culture and the history of it. The African American literature is a story about how Africans did not get a good education, if any at all. While reading “Long Black Song” the reader can read that Sarah, the main character, does not have good English grammar. Southern Africans are usually associated with the way that Sarah talks. In these days, even Ebonics is used among Africans. In the Indian literature is a story about a man named Abel who is Indian and is struggling to exist in two different worlds. The story tells how Indian life is and traditions of the Indians. It tells stories about Indian folktale. It is a story about culture and how Abel is trying to find his way to exist in America. The Asian literature is a story about a girl who starts her menstrual cycle and her mother feels like she needs to let her daughter know how people are taught when they do not follow rules of their culture. The mother feels that she needs to let her daughter know about her sister in law. The mother tells the daughter about how her sister in law got pregnant while he husband was away and how the village treated the family and her sister in law with disrespect because she did not follow the rules of her

In emerging Diaspora, the mixed cultural dominant environment poses a challenge to immigrants, where they strive to reinvent, a ‘self Identity’. It aims to capture the striving role of women in men’s society to build selfhood,an individuality in immigration context. From centuries woman is seen struggling under the shadow of patriarchal family structure. Her image is subservient and in general protected by a father or a husband or a son where her self-image is vanished off target without a self identity. Divakaruni focuses the notion of women struggling to make a footing in alien country out of the patriarchal zone.The paper foregrounds the struggle of the women characters in the novel The Vine of Desire who undergo emotional grinding in process of ataining re-inventing selfhood and re-fashioning culture. It focuses the notion of women struggling to make a footing in alien country miles away from their home. The struggle underlines, the impact of cultural difference. The native root culture is in contest with the ‘other’ culture, where the characters are in a state of vacillation. The cultures reflect the difference of the world around the them, building a fissure amid belonging and not belonging. The women characters display fractured identity but gather the wrecked pieces to build their self image. They are inclined to transform and face the litmus test challenges to gather the shattered fragments in their lives.