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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn By Susan B Anthony

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Susan B Anthony once said, “Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less." For decades now, our society has been dealing with gender inequality. Most men wouldn’t care about this issue because their lives aren’t being impacted by this. Women have been, and are still facing discrimination against their gender. The inequality negatively influences a woman’s life at home, school, and at work. It also limits the things that they are capable of doing and it violates their human rights. Compared to how it was back then, there has been a great amount of change in our society, but men are still preferred over women in most situations.
In society, there are usually certain expectations of men and women and there are certain ways that both genders do things. A major novel that we read for HWOC was The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The main themes for this book were racism and slavery, but once we talked about the book in details, we realized there were also a few pieces of evidence of gender inequality. When Huck was pretending to be a girl named Sarah Williams in order to cover his identity, he was sewing with a woman when she said, “You do a girl tolerable poor, but you might fool men, maybe. Bless you, child, when you set out to thread a needle don’t hold the thread still and fetch the needle up to it; hole the needle still and poke the thread at it; that’s the way a woman most always does, but a man always does t’other way.” (57,58). By saying this,

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