Mrs. Murdle Tillery's Interview

Mrs. Younger lived a lower end lifestyle. She tried to work for her family but it was a different time than today, and people had different ideas based on the time that they lived in. The time in which the

She also talks about how middle class parenting differs from the other social class. The middle class parents mostly dominate the lives of their children while the working class parents cannot concentrate that much on their kids. She also brought a name for this phenomena called “Concerted Cultivation”.

Covert, Brenda B. "Our Surprise Family." Today's Christian Woman 21.3 (1999): 64. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 22 Apr. 2016.

Social status often establishes one 's credibility and integrity within a society. The power that social status has, encourages people to heavily focus on it. With this focus on social status ever pressing, one’s identity often gets intertwined with and reliant on their place in the hierarchy of society. People become fixated on one idea they have of a person in a certain social class, that anybody who breaks out of specific stereotypes may often cause anger amongst others. In the short story “Greenleaf” by Flannery O’Connor, the main character, Mrs. May, is obsessive about the way others perceive her and her place in society. Mr. May’s identity is so strictly tied to her desire to get to a higher social class and her notions how society

might the resulting contrasts suggest about the role of class in shaping social experience in The

Explain how the author has portrayed a social group in a particular way. How may the context of the author influence their portrayal of these social groups? The text portrays mainly on four types of social groups; the lower class, the upper class, and then, authorities which includes the politicians and the police and the rest of the people who are related to the government and lastly, Indians, in general. After reading the text, our view about a type of group is set, for example, the first thought that comes to the mind of a reader about the lower class is that they are weak, helpless, easily targetable, disconnected and metaphorically speaking as though they are kept in a cage, a rooster coop, mostly, that they are servants.

In the speech, “Solitude of Self (1892),” by Elizabeth Cady Stanton she goes into great detail about what personal individualism means and its importance to women as a whole. Stanton at the time was already well-established speaker at this point and this speech would be the pinnacle of her already illustrious speaking career. Although she lived a long life (1815-1902), she was still unable to see the fruits her labors materialize into what it is today. When the speech was first spoken it was in front of the House Committee on the Judiciary, which was an all male audience.

At a dinner party a man asks for Lady Augusta’s daughter hand in marriage. She denies because he is of lower class, his background is questionable and unknown, and he wasn’t born into the aristocracy. Lady believes that marriage is grounds for gaining financial security and other properties, not for love or prosperity. This gives her the opportunity to discriminate based on social class.

Social class is defined as ‘a group of people in society who possess the same socioeconomic status.’ This form of social stratification can have a positive or adverse effect on the quality of life of people in society. Hosseini and Austen present their characters as discovering social class to be a barrier to the formation of their relationships, whether they are familial or romantic relationships, or simply friendships. Hosseini’s tale follows Amir, who experiences both the height of social status as he grows up in Kabul because his ‘father was rich and everyone knew him’, but also the lack of social standing when he is forced to move to America.

To begin, the British social class was based on “matches” with a high influence of money for a couple to be considered “successful” in the Victorian Era. As stated by Penny Boumelha “… the concern with cross-romance demonstrates that the novel’s representation of gender relations and differences is made more dense and complex by it sensitivity to the issue of power and hierarchy more commonly understood to relate to class” (Introduction 20-21). The novel displays the social class such as Ms. Thomasin’s betrothal to Mr. Wildeve with her aunt’s approval. Another example, in discussing the marriage between the Eustacia and Clym, Hardy states, “The feelings of both husband and wife varied, in some measure, inversely with their positions” (Hardy 251). Yet, the entire plot line of the story is surrounded by the Victorian standard of the social class. However, Diggory Venn tries to change his faith by purposing to Thomasin, but he seeks her guardian’s permission who quickly dismissed his offer. For the reddlemam (a person who sells red dye to farmers and shepherds for their sheep) tries to impress her aunt but her response is, “I am much obliged to you for your interest in my niece; but I fear there would be objections” (Hardy 97). However, at the end of the novel Diggory breaks the traditional societal thoughts on marriage for he ends up marrying Thomasin due to an unfortunate circumstance and genuine

Finally, women were not treated equally in legal and social system. Mr. Bennet’s property is entailed to a distant cousin of the girls as there are no males in the family to inherit. This is a great example of how women are treated inferior in the prevailing system. This puts extra burden on the family as if the girls are not married to men who can provide for them, they have to depend on the sympathy of Mr. Collins, their distant cousin whom the property is

The importance of family hasn’t changed and the difficulty and pleasure of raising children has not changed. Through this interview, I learned facts about my grandmother’s life that I probably would have never known. For example, her dad gave her the title to the car she was born in and her father always used to say “Karen, you came into this world in a hurry and are always in a hurry, but you’ll be late for your own funeral!”. I’m glad I chose to complete this assignment because I have been able to relate my grandma’s life to what we learn in class, which makes it more personal and

The society is divided in different types of classes. The wealthy ones, the lower class, the religious ones and many more. For many years people have suffered for being in some type of class. To be treated differently is why people suffer. This analysis will bring up a comparison from the religion Hinduism with its caste system and scenes from the movie “Atonement” to show how the class different can change a person’s life forever.

Annie could not agree with some of the customs of the Hindus, particularly the treatment of widows. She also raised her voice against the caste system and condemned the practice of ‘Sati’. Annie shifted her attention to the slum children and opened schools for them. She said, “Let us be compassionate to those in a lesser position than ourselves and reach out to them.”

Although Highbury was just a small population town, the particular social structure was reflecting this type of class structure about Britain. For instance, the love amongst Robert Martin and Harriet was not acceptable in Emma’s eyes. Robert Martin was a successful respectable farmer; Harriet is a friend of Emma and illegitimate of a tradesman nevertheless she received well cared and properly educated. So Emma couldn’t agree while Mr. Martin proposed marriage to Harriet, subsequently Emma Convinced Harriet to Refused to associate with Robert Martin. And try to match Harriet and Mr. Elton who was considered as higher rank of society status, young priest with record of great educating. In Emma describe of Mr. Martin “he may be the richest of the two, but he is undoubtedly her inferior as to rank in society.”(Emma, Chapter7, and p.33) it is clear that time, marriage most depended on and compromised with the values of their social status.