Chanda's Perspectives

The book goes through Jeannette’s life exposing the mistakes she, her siblings, and her parents made to become the family they were. As her life grows older, Jeannette finds herself in more responsible positions in the world, with editing school newspapers, to writing columns in a small New York newspaper outlet. Her troubles have raised the issue of stereotyping, a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing. Due to her status in her childhood, it was not hard for her to fit in with the other members of the poor community. “Dinitia explained that I was with her and that I was good people. The women looked at one another and shrugged.” (Walls 191) The quote talks about how members of the black community in Welch accepted Jeannette to go swimming with them in the morning hours before the white people went in the afternoon. The people who knew Dinita, Jeannette’s friend, knew that Dinita was trustworthy, and let Jeannette pass. This relates to the thesis because it shows how she was accepted amongst the people who were

It is a third person omniscient narrator, which gives the reader an opportunity to gain insight into the minds, thoughts and perceptions of Munda and the white men. This allows the reader to empathise with the characters. The narrator is implicit, as he/she does not participate in the story. The events are seen from both the black and the white people’s points of view, which clarifies the reasons behind the hostile relationship between these two population groups. In this way, the reader becomes acquainted with both sides of the story. The narrator’s own attitude to the events and to the characters is not shown, but the sympathy lies with Munda and the

The essay begins with Henry George referring to his audience as ladies and gentlemen. He then goes on to state that poverty is a crime. A crime not committed by the poor, but rather the poor as victims of the crime. He also does not wholly blame those perpetrating the crime, he also gives a kind of notion that the victim has a hand the situation he or she finds themselves in. He says the poverty is a curse that not only the poor have but is on every level of society even the rich. He says the rich also suffer because it is like the air all the community breathes. They too must breathe it.

Everyone knows that poverty can lead to feelings of shame and humiliation, but what many people don’t realize is that sometimes overwhelming feelings of shame and humiliation lead to poverty. In her article “In the Search of Identity in Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street,” Maria de Valdes goes as far as to refer to shame and poverty as a “syndrome” because she believes they’re so closely associated. “It is a closed circle,” Valdes asserts. “You are poor because you are an outsider without education; you try to get an education, but you can’t take the contrastive evidence of poverty and ‘it keeps you down.’” In other words, poverty and shame are an endless cycle because a person will be ashamed to be impoverished, but won’t be able to move up because shame will always hold them back. This can be seen in Esperanza’s mother, who didn’t finish school because she was too ashamed that she didn’t have nice clothes like the other girls. “Shame is a bad thing, you know,” she warns Esperanza. “It keeps you down” (91). Shame kept her down by preventing her from finishing school, and in turn her lack of education kept her from pursuing her dreams. Instead, she settled into the housewife life, which she still regrets: “I could’ve been somebody, you know” (91). She says it sadly, like she’s mourning the loss of what

Your analysis of Paradise of the blind reminds me of the literature of the great Gatsby that commonly reveal actions and brings out logic related to cause and effect, characters, and critical analysis of the story. Reading literature like Paradise of the blind and the great Gatsby is important to focus on the community level, to develop the significance of wealth, social class, as a reflection of the standpoint to understand the life of the characters. In Paradise of the blind, I see suffering of women under chaos beliefs. Unfortunately, the biases against women in different countries around the world still relevant today. In some places like those in the Middle East, males are able to go to school and learn how to read and write, but females

The author shows a great example of the power these men had against these women in the village. In the time period this story took place, it was amazing to the author to witness that gender inequality was still a very big issue in some places. The author described how shocked she was when she found out that these women were not allowed to

     Upper society need to place the blame on someone for the corruption that prostitution has on men. There needed to be someone who was responsible for the to corruption; so lets blame it on the prostitutes. The book touches on this a couple of

The stories she reports and critiques are characterized by 1) a fundamental circumvention of agency for the appropriated test subjects--primarily, working class Puerto Rican women and the placing of all blame for social problems upon "them"; 2) though she doesn't name it as such, a historical employment of misconceptions of genetics and hereditary in exerting control over "colonized subjects," "the poor," and women's reproductive and sexual histories**; all of this located in a "transition away from frank colonialism" (198). This is also a story of the displacement of poverty caused by colonialism onto disease, difference, "over-population", and the need for public health regulation from the mainland U.S among others

When the readers meet the young, subordinated wife of a physician, who remains nameless throughout the entire story, perhaps hinting at the commonness of such situations where all those women are the same: faceless and nameless, this woman’s dilemma becomes obvious. She has been stripped off the only function a woman in those times had, the domestic one, due to the fact that she suffers from a mysterious illness which requires the infamous bed cure. Gradually, she is treated more and more as a child, unable and even forbidden to express herself in a creative way, namely to write, being persuaded that it cannot do any good to someone in her condition. This is why the protagonist (who is simultaneously the narrator), takes it upon herself to write a journal about her experiences and the mysterious woman that haunts her from the

Moreover, I feel that Didion is attempting to get the reader to internalize that we as the audience should not ignore, as Didion put it the slums, and should instead try to help out, because if no help is given to the areas that aren’t very well off, than the issues that exist will never change, this statement is backed up when Didion wrote, “I stuffed Kleenex in wet shoes and stopped expecting them to dry.” Which symbolically describes what is done to blighted areas such as Overtown, which many people typically look over because they don’t expect it to change. This use of symbolism is only one of the many rhetorical devices that Didion uses in her story that allow her idea of social fragmentation and the unjust difference that exist between the poor and the rich to be reached across all platforms.

The novel centers itself on the storylines of two contrasting households, the Komoeties and the Van Rooyens; Matthee fuels these striking disparities between the households by making use of foils. Matthee makes it a point to arm each of characters in the families with vividly contrasting character traits. The contrasting pairing of Barta and Fiela is an ideal example. They both paint contrasting pictures of the roles and stature of women in society. Fiela is portrayed as a strong and courageous woman, who is in complete charge of her home and family, as can be seen clearly in the narrative below: “Fiela laid down new rules for Wolwekraal: first of all, Selling’s work bench was shifted to the west of the house” (Matthee 184). The quote above resonates with readers and evidently depicts Fiela’s character as being symbolic of a Matriarchal society. She is shown to go against the typical norms seen in society, Barta, on the other hand, is shown to conform to societal norms of the prevalent patriarchal society, and is shown in a rather subservient and passive light. Through the juxtaposition of these characters, both of whom symbolize the sexist tensions in the novel, while depicting completely contradictory notions, Matthee is also able to evidently create a distinction between the Dutch colonizers

Small aspects of writing style for the remainder of the book change to include Haitian sayings, words, or the way Haitians pronounce English words, and this passage is a great example of that. The integration of the Haitian language, creole, into the book is very important because it demonstrates the impact Haiti has had on the author and the many people in the book and it also allows immerses the reader into the story and its setting and makes the dialogue between the Haitians and the Americans more realistic. The story told in the beginning of this passage displays Farmers dedication to helping his patients heal and recover. The proverb used in this passage plays a big role in the story and explains the title of the book. This proverb does

This passage is an example of social inequality, because the doctor is being racist towards Kino’s family because he is Indians. This is important because the doctor is showing racial behavior towards Kino because he is different. Reading this passage, the reader learns we shouldn’t hurt those

In today’s society, people do not realize the harm they do to one or another. Endless amounts of people are being characterized negatively and sometimes positive nearly for the simplest thing. Unfortunately, we live in a society that cherishes emotions of regret and envious, at times to a higher degree than the one illustrated throughout the play. Moreover, it is known to have a bias characteristic towards envying others and their accomplishments without one appreciating their own accomplishments. Also, one tends to be negative within their own appearance, since the media focuses on beauty instead of knowledge. Beauty instead of knowledge is like saying that one's indurate work to be someone in life doesn’t matter as much

This stanza is when the readers see the fake mask the speaker has to put on in order to cover up the hurt of her soul. This is meant to segway into the idea that women who do not live life conventionally are criticized and looked down upon by society. The speaker, in a frank manner, admits to feeling the criticism and harshness of