The Importance Of Tragic Events In Mariatu's Life

Stereotypes are what people generalize others to be just because their personal characteristics are different from one another. This has been an on-going conflict in our society because of the fact that it privileges certain people to have the more advantages than others when it comes to jobs, education, and who the people are. But the problem that society has when it comes to stereotyping is that they are not seeing the real dangers of what it has been doing too many of these people. Such dangers have led many to believe that based on skin color, race, gender, and other traits, people are potential threats, less privileged, and thought to be just different in general. In the essays “The Myth of a Latin Woman: I Just met a Girls Named Maria” by Judith Cofer and Just Walk on By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space” by Brent Staples, the reader is introduced to the real life experiences of stereotypes and how they impact many of these lives in different ways.

As the novel began, Maria Teresa was merely a child and she was seen as a very sweet character. However, the revolution turned things around for her whole family. She longer perceived certain things as positively as she would have just a few years back. She believed “that the sun was shining

The refugee story of Viola shows us what the process of the adapting to a new climate and environment is like, as well as how this process relates to that which

Racism had tainted her life from the very beginning. During her childhood she attended a one-room school for blacks only. She was only allowed to attend school for a short time due to the ailing health of

Finally, she had people who understood her and were willing to listen to her. She had people who believed in her, stood by her when she had her baby. The girls were not perfect, she had some not so good moments with them but even in their imperfections, they were people she could relate with. Being able to read her story to them, and hear their story, gave her a sense of belonging. When Ms Rain asked her how she feels participating in class she said “I feel here”. This is an indication of a sense of belonging.

Marie developed an independent personality early on and rarely relied on her family for help. She was accustomed to collecting her school records from one school and enrolling her-self in the next school. A particular principle stands out in her memory, by looking at her records, which were from Texas, he told her that he was going to hold her back a year as the Texas school system was behind the Pennsylvania school system. This made Marie very angry because she sure didn’t want anyone to think she had failed. So she bargained with the principle, asking him to let her be in the grade she should be in and if she couldn’t do the work

The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gomez by John Rechy delves into the life of Amalia Gomez; a Mexican-American woman living in a poor rural area of Hollywood. The structure of her family is falling apart due to conflict between the characters and Amalia’s lack of involvement in their lives. Her youngest son Juan is a male prostitute known as a “maricÓn”, her daughter Gloria is falling dangerously close to following in Amalia’s footsteps, and her oldest son Manny although well intentioned starts to clone his father’s criminal tendencies even though he has no recollections of his father. Amalia’s selective perspective also leads to conflict within herself since she is content not knowing the truth as long as the false reality fits her ideal

Despite being a victim caught in a war zone and suffering an unimaginable trauma, Mariatu doesn’t allow anything to keep her from finding a better life

(Campbell 50) A lot of the Metis children were dropping out of school to work which is what Maria did. Metis children felt pressure to help their families financially as a result of being poverty stricken and because of the racist feelings of white people towards the Poverty among metis women also occurred when a women is abandoned by her husband. Since a women is usually at home with the children once her husband dies, or leaves her they have to come up with a way to make money. This is evident Campbell’s great grandma, when her husband passed away, she had to take her son (Campbell’s father) and labour for a white family.

Finally, she is able to detect the lies of her father. Lies he tries concealing. As he once indirectly pushed her away, Mariam needed him to know how much damage he causes. She would not spare him of the injustice he has commit. It would be the first time she speaks against a man. “ ‘I’ll visit you’ he muttered.[. . .] ‘No. No,’ she said. ‘Don’t come. I won’t see you. Don't you come. I don't want to hear from you. Ever. Ever.’ ”(50). Mariam is an intelligent, outgoing girl, daring at times. She went as far as walking to the busy streets of Kabul to search for her father. With this, she wanted to leave him with a wounded heart. Like she felt when he refused to open the doors of his home. After the miserable ceremony, these traits withered away.

Celie is inspired by her sister’s independence, determination and perseverance in Africa among foreign people whom Nettie cares about deeply. Celie saw the impact that a woman could have on others and felt

Firstly, the life of Mariam portrays the sense of hopelessness and betrayal that runs through the oppressed in Afghanistan.

This event greatly impacts her life, because it makes her realize that equal opportunity education is not a guaranteed thing. Before this she had brief periods of understanding of the sexism in her home country, but this really drove it home to her. This caused her to start to advocate for women’s rights and the right to an education. Once she started to become an advocate she began to learn more about the true nature of confidence and

In the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, main character Mariam is forced into exile after a horrific set of experiences. After her mother’s suicide, she is removed from her home and is later arranged to marry a random man she never met before. Before her departure, Mariam lived in a “kolba,” a small hut on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan. With no other place to go, she disapprovingly lives with her father for a short period of time before being shipped off to her new husband. Her encounter with exile is almost unbearable, yet she endures and grows into a hardworking and respectable woman. For Mariam, exile is both alienating and enriching; it illuminates how withstanding life’s challenges and learning to overcome them with love will ultimately be beneficial in the end, no matter what happens.

Experiences play a vital role on who we are as a person, more importantly the memories that we’ve had as children stick with us for the rest of our lives. They help structure and model us into a person that will eventually do extraordinary things that will affect others around us. In first world countries most experiences as a child are generally the same for everyone because they live in a safe shielded environment that protects them anything bad that could happen but, children growing up in third world countries face horrible experiences that can cost them their lives but they believe is the norm. Through my primary research I have discovered that history and social structures have had a great impact on my personal life than ever imagined having to growing up in a third world country. After developing my secondary research, the information I collected is proof of events that have ultimately lead to factors of my development from an infant to who I am as a person today. Throughout my life there were different historical events occurring at the time in my home country and my future country that unfolded to shape and model my life to make me the person that I am today. I am able to identify specific events that separately correspond to the process of coming to Canada before while residing in my home country, during the immigration process to come here, and after arriving in Canada. In this essay I will be talking about how these historical events and social structures shaped