Tuesday, 29 January 2019

Jhumpa Lahiri Selections- Last material to read

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Monday, 28 January 2019

Frida Kahlo Quote

Two part reading response "The bluest eye"

"The bluest eye" novel written by Toni Morrison talk about the life of a young African-American girl whose name is Pecola. She was a black girl who comes from a poor and depressive family.

Facing domestic violence, sexual assault, and living in a community that associates beauty with whiteness, she suffers from low self-respect and views herself to be ugly. She hated the fact of how she was, she couldn’t accept her appearance that way. She couldn’t even think that beauty means ‘Her’ in all the different ways possible, and the idea of it was more forced by the non-educational way of her parents. Even though she has her thoughts she never had the support of anyone to change her ideas of herself. She believes that whiteness is beautiful. Pecola prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be as beautiful and beloved as all the blond, blue-eyed children in America. Her madness at the end of the novel is her only way to escape the world where she cannot be beautiful and to get the blue eyes she desires from the beginning of the novel. Eyes have the ability to reveal our inner emotions and they’re our window to the outside world and she wanted them blue because blue eyes are said to be the most desirable and loved and at least that was all she ever wanted, to be loved, once. I really believe in illustration of the fact that we don't need to be perfect in no way, we need only to make an effort and to keep learning about the world, and to take care of ourselves and people around us, no matter how we may be look like ,or how old we are in years.
Let us love wisely, unconditionally for once!

Saturday, 26 January 2019

"Two part reading response" Incident in the life of a slave girl.

This story is about a female slave and her experiences. Her story is terrible since at the beginning, since at her birth as she claimed. She describes the "life" of a slave and her suffers and how difficult is to be a slave and let your destiny in a man's hand. Especially when the man abused the women. Even all this things she is a strong woman and brave and the mainly reason is because of her children. Harriet speaks for the human rights especially the women's rights and the ending of slavery.

Two part reading response "The Bluest Eye"

The Bluest Eye is a novel written by author Tomi Morrison.

The story of this novel takes place in Lorain, Ohio which talks about an American-African girl named Pecola.

Pecola is grown up during the years of Great Depression, in a community which associates beauty with whiteness, she is grown up in a family with low incomes and whose parents are constantly fighting, verbally and physically.

The title of this novel ‘The Bluest Eye’ refers to Pecola’s wishes for blue eyes. She feels that if she had blue eye she would be considered beautiful instead being called ugly and thinking she is ugly herself. She believes that if she had blue eyes her family life would be completely different and people would love her.

This novel treats social problems such as: racism, violence and bullying.

For my opinion beauty nowadays is important and is admired by everyone but in fact inner beauty is the one we should be focusing all of our lives because outer beauty fades as we age but our inner beauty never fades no matter how old we get.

Final Research Paper Instructions

Please identify one or two crosscutting themes in two of the books you have read in this course. Once you identify the theme(s), state what theme you have chosen and make a brief analysis of the theme in both books, pointing out if there are similarities and differences in terms of feminist analysis . The length of the paper may vary, but a 4-5 paragraph paper that states and supports your position is sufficient.

For ideas on your themes, please visit:
https://literarydevices.net/a-huge-list-of-common-themes/

For support regarding Feminist literary criticism, please read information below:

Tools of the Feminist Literary Critic

Feminist literary criticism may bring in tools from other critical disciplines, such as historical analysis, psychology, linguistics, sociological analysis, economic analysis, for instance. Feminist criticism may also look at intersectionality, looking at how factors including race, sexuality, physical ability, and class are also involved.

Feminist literary criticism may use any of the following methods:

Deconstructing the way that women are described, especially if the author is male. This applies to both fictional characters in novels, stories, and plays, and women characters in nonfiction including biography and history.
Deconstructing how one's own gender influences how one reads and interprets a text, and which characters and how the reader identifies depending on the reader's gender.
Deconstructing how women autobiographers and biographers of women treat their subjects, and how biographers treat women who are secondary to the main subject.
Describing relationships between the literary text and ideas about power and sexuality and gender.
Critique of patriarchal or woman-marginalizing language, such as a "universal" use of the masculine pronouns "he" and "him."
Noticing and unpacking differences in how men and women write: a style, for instance, where women use more reflexive language and men use more direct language (example: "she let herself in" vs. "he opened the door").
Reclaiming women writers who are little known or have been marginalized or undervalued, sometimes referred to as expanding or criticizing the canon—the usual list of "important" authors and works. The retrieval of Zora Neale Hurston's writing by Alice Walker is an example. Another example: raising up the contributions of early playwright Aphra Behn, showing how she was treated differently than male writers from her own time forward.

Reclaiming the 'female voice' as a valuable contribution to literature, even if formerly marginalized or ignored.
Analyzing multiple works in a genre as an overview of a feminist approach to that genre: for example, science fiction or detective fiction.
Analyzing multiple works by a single author (often female).
Examining how relationships between men and women and those assuming male and female roles are depicted in the text, including power relations.
Examining the text to find ways in which patriarchy is resisted or could have been resisted.

Source: https://www.thoughtco.com/feminist-literary-criticism-3528960

Thursday, 24 January 2019

The urgency of intersectionality
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=akOe5-UsQ2o&t=360s

Wednesday, 23 January 2019

Plot Overview

Nine-year-old Claudia and ten-year-old Frieda MacTeer live in Lorain, Ohio, with their parents. It is the end of the Great Depression, and the girls’ parents are more concerned with making ends meet than with lavishing attention upon their daughters, but there is an undercurrent of love and stability in their home. The MacTeers take in a boarder, Henry Washington, and also a young girl named Pecola. Pecola’s father has tried to burn down his family’s house, and Claudia and Frieda feel sorry for her. Pecola loves Shirley Temple, believing that whiteness is beautiful and that she is ugly.

Pecola moves back in with her family, and her life is difficult. Her father drinks, her mother is distant, and the two of them often beat one another. Her brother, Sammy, frequently runs away. Pecola believes that if she had blue eyes, she would be loved and her life would be transformed. Meanwhile, she continually receives confirmation of her own sense of ugliness—the grocer looks right through her when she buys candy, boys make fun of her, and a light-skinned girl, Maureen, who temporarily befriends her makes fun of her too. She is wrongly blamed for killing a boy’s cat and is called a “nasty little black bitch” by his mother.

We learn that Pecola’s parents have both had difficult lives. Pauline, her mother, has a lame foot and has always felt isolated. She loses herself in movies, which reaffirm her belief that she is ugly and that romantic love is reserved for the beautiful. She encourages her husband’s violent behavior in order to reinforce her own role as a martyr. She feels most alive when she is at work, cleaning a white woman’s home. She loves this home and despises her own. Cholly, Pecola’s father, was abandoned by his parents and raised by his great aunt, who died when he was a young teenager. He was humiliated by two white men who found him having sex for the first time and made him continue while they watched. He ran away to find his father but was rebuffed by him. By the time he met Pauline, he was a wild and rootless man. He feels trapped in his marriage and has lost interest in life.

Cholly returns home one day and finds Pecola washing dishes. With mixed motives of tenderness and hatred that are fueled by guilt, he rapes her. When Pecola’s mother finds her unconscious on the floor, she disbelieves Pecola’s story and beats her. Pecola goes to Soaphead Church, a sham mystic, and asks him for blue eyes. Instead of helping her, he uses her to kill a dog he dislikes.

Claudia and Frieda find out that Pecola has been impregnated by her father, and unlike the rest of the neighborhood, they want the baby to live. They sacrifice the money they have been saving for a bicycle and plant marigold seeds. They believe that if the flowers live, so will Pecola’s baby. The flowers refuse to bloom, and Pecola’s baby dies when it is born prematurely. Cholly, who rapes Pecola a second time and then runs away, dies in a workhouse. Pecola goes mad, believing that her cherished wish has been fulfilled and that she has the bluest eyes.

Tuesday, 22 January 2019

Two part reading response:I know why the caged bird sings

Maya Angelou addresses the issue of racism, where thousands of black people were discriminated by white people, and freedom, where black people have no rights to be free. Their life’s where determined by white people(“ black students are expected to be come only athletes or servants”). They have no rights(“ I would rather place my hand in a dog’s mouth rather than yours”). She rises her voice against these issues(“ I know why the caged bird sings”), and even though she may has not have the life she wanted, but what is more importante is that white people can not force her do or live how they says.

Two part reading response: "The Bluest Eye"

In The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison weaves stories of violation and hardship to examine the ugliness that racism produces. In this novel, the childhood icons of white culture are negative representations instrumental in engendering internalized racism. For the black child in a racist, white culture, these icons are never innocent. Embodying the ideals of white beauty, they expose the basis for Claudia's bewilderment at why she is not attractive and Pecola's desperate desire for beauty. They nourish neither innocent desire, nor the need for acceptance, but denigrate the very idea of blackness.
Appearing on screen with male and female, African-American actors, Shirley Temple also symbolizes the directed energy of African-American adults toward the care of white children. Subservient to her needs, and trapped in the stereotyped roles available to them, the adult actors who appeared as her caretakers often appeared to be childish, rather than child like, a demeaning position, especially when contrasted with the simulated adult behavior exhibited on screen by Shirley Temple. She keeps them "in their place" partly by imitating Little Eva, the wise and noble, white child of Uncle Tom's Cabin, and partly by her mere presence on screen. As a representation of Little Eva, Shirley Temple characterizes the saintliness of the "good" child, a saintliness "worthy" of glorified attention and near worship. If we think of Shirley Temple as Little Eva, then we might also visualize her companions as Uncle Tom or Aunt Chloe, who love their own children, but in embracing the conditions of slavery, willingly put the welfare of white children above their own.
On screen, the presence of Shirley Temple as a white child signifies the neglect of the African-American child. For Claudia, Shirley Temple represents her own absence in the attention of her family.
Claudia does not agree with the assumption of her own ugliness, or lack of beauty. Nevertheless, she is stymied by those around her who buy into the cultural construct of white beauty. She recognizes that while she can destroy her dolls, and can even think negatively about Maureen, she cannot convince those around her that the cultural assumption of beauty is wrong.
In The Bluest Eye, Morrison rails against the concept of the superiority of white beauty through the thoughts and actions of the narrator, Claudia. Claudia resents the assumption of beauty being measured by whiteness, and attempts to destroy it, while at the same time fighting against the converse: that her blackness should be equated with ugliness.

Two part reading response: Beloved by Toni Morrison

Plot:
Beloved is a true story based on an Afro-Amarican woman. She was a slave at the 'Sweet Home'. After the death of the owner the house was taken by a man known as the 'school teacher', who treated slaves very badly, tortured them. After these treatmenttreatmentss, Sethe decided to run away and thought that it would be better if she killed her children than letting them be tortured and raped. She killed one of her daughters. Sethe locked herself and felt the blame inside her,but the return of Peter D made her feel better and she stated to feel like she had got over it.
My opinion:
So, I think that Sethe acted like that because she thought it was the best way possible to escape slavery. She, as a mother couldn't bare the pain to see her children treated like animals, raped and so on
Maybe the slavery itself had made an impact on her and she was kind of afraid to see and handle more pains.
Also the desire to see some quiet and free days with her family pushed her to run away, but she knew that they(the strong white people) would find and punish them until they die. So she decided to take their lives by her own.
Her relationship with her daughter doesn't look like those mother-daughter relationships. She develops a dangerous maternal passion that results in the murder of one daughter, her own "best self".

Two-part Reading Response: " I know why the caged bird sings"

Plot:
Maya and Bailey are simblings. They have been rejected and abadoned by their parents since Maya was 3 years old and Bailey 4. They went to live with their grandmother, Annie Henderson. Maya has always been judged by others.
* When she was reciting a poem in church and was unable to finish it, people started making fun of her.
* When their father took both of them to live with their mother, Vivian, their mother's live-in boyfriend molested Maya sexually and raped her.
* At her eighth grade graduation, a white speaker said that black students were expected to become only atheletes or servants.
* When she got a rotten tooth, her grandmother took her to the only dentist in Stamps, who insulted her saying that he would rather place his hand in a dogs mouth than in hers.
Despite this, Maya was supported by Bailey, grandmother and Bertha Flowers who gave her books of poetry that helped her to regain her voice.
When her mother married with Daddy Clidell, she went to live with them and spent the summer with her stepfather. But his girlfriend cut her in a fight. She run away and lived with a stray group of teenagers for a month.
At 16 she hid her pregnancy from her parents for 8 months and graduated from high school.
It ended when Maya bagan feeling confident as a mother to her newborn son.
Comment:
If we look throught the title we can understand that 'the caged bird' is the symbol that Maya Angelou has used to symbolize herself and other people like her.
She has always been segregating from others because of her skin color (what nowadays is called racism). 'The caged bird' refers to the lack of freedom, that means black people have not the right to choose even for their lifes. They don't deserve to be servered, too, but they must serve.
Example 1: When white speaker said that black students were expected to become only athletes or servants.
Example 2: When the dentist said he wojld rather place his hand in a dog's mouth than hers.
The group of words 'the caged bird sings' means that even though they have not any right, this is still not enought to stop them from rising their voices against the injustices like Maya Angelou did.
Even though she was tormented when she was young, she found the way to deal with everyone, and to become independent from others.

Two part reading response:" I know why the caged bird sings" by Maya Angelou

In I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou describes her life as an insecure black girl in California during the 40’s. Maya’s parents get divorced when she is only three years old and send Maya and her brother, Bailey, to live with their paternal grandmother, Annie Henderson, who runs a store in the rural area of Stamps, Arkansas. Maya suffers due to her black skin and thinks that she is very ugly compared to white girls but she also doesn’t feel equal to other black children. When Maya is eight, her father, who she doesn’t remember at all, arrives in Stamps and takes her and Bailey to live with their mother, Vivian, in St. Louis, Missouri. Vivian works in gambling parlors and one morning her friend, Mr. Freeman, sexually molests Maya, and he later rapes her. They go to court and then Mr. Freeman is murdered in a horrible way. Maya has to live with the shame of having been sexually abused. She also believes that she is somehow responsible for Mr. Freeman’s death because she denied in court that he had molested her before the rape. Now she believes that everything she says has consequences, so she stops speaking to everyone except Bailey. Maya and Bailey return to Stamps to live with Momma, who introduces her to Mrs. Bertha Flowers, a kind-hearted woman who tells Maya to read works of literature out loud, giving her books of poetry that help her to regain her voice. During her life Maya goes through several incidents that teach her about the tremendous nature of racism. At age ten, Maya takes a job for a white woman who calls her “Mary” for her own convenience. Maya gets very angry and breaks the woman’s fine china. At Maya’s eighth grade graduation, a white speaker puts down the black community by explaining that black students are expected to become only athletes or servants. The thing that makes everything worse is the time when Bailey encounters a dead, black man and witnesses a white man’s satisfaction at seeing the body. Momma begins to fear for the children’s well-being and saves money to bring them to Vivian, who now lives in California.When Maya is thirteen, the family moves to live with Vivian in Los Angeles and then in Oakland, California. When Vivian marries Daddy Clidell, a kind man, they move with him to San Francisco, the first city where Maya feels at home. She spends one summer with her father, Big Bailey, in Los Angeles and has to put up with his indifference and his evil girlfriend, Dolores. After Dolores cuts her in a fight, Maya runs away and lives for a month with a group of homeless teenagers in a junkyard. She returns to San Francisco and at sixteen she hides her pregnancy from her mother and stepfather for eight months and graduates from high school. The story ends as Maya begins to feel confident as a mother to her newborn son.

Maya Angelou's story certainly demonstrates the struggles which a black girl had to pass back in the days when black people were humiliated by others and were used as slaves. This is a fine demonstration that black people were seen not as people and definitely were not treated as ones either. She has written about the difficulties of that time and the bad conditions and circumstances that wouldn't let anyone get out of the stuggles they were experiencing. The fact that even the justice or government would't protect and defend black people is a sign of a deep racism carved in all of the society. There had to pass years and years for slavery to come to an end and for people to be less racist. Anyway, Maya basically had to move from place to place in order to be safe and not risk her life. I bet she never felt free to do what she wanted to or have a normal life like others. I really like the fact that the author has felt the need to share her story and be so open about it because besides helping fight racism it has inspired many people who have been victims of different incidents not to stay quiet but speak about it and make sure that justice is served.

Two part reading response' I Know Why the Cage Bird Sings' by Maya Angelou.

Two-part reading response: ‘I Know Why the Cage Bird Sings’ by Maya Angelou.

In the I Know Why the Cage Bird Sings Maya Angelou tells the story of her life up to the birth of her child. She faces many hardships in her life. She describes her coming of age as a precocious but terrible black girl. Maya has a little brother named Bailey. As children they suffered the most from the divorce of their parents, they struggle with pain of having been abandoned by their parents. She was sent to live with her grandmother ‘Annie Henderson’. This is not the only thing that happened to her she find herself tormented by the belief that she is ugly child. She does not feel equal from white child but also different from black children. Growing up in Stamps she faced with racism. That tormented her during her life. When she went to visit her mother she is raped by her mother’s friend ‘Mr. Freemen’, who later on was murdered probably by someone from Maya’s family member. She faced racism in society and school where she is discriminated by the speaker. When Maya spend the summer in San Francisco with her father, Dolores, daddy’s girlfriend cuts her in a fight. She runs away and fined herself in a junkyard. Living there with some other people she started to have doubt about her development as a woman and she decides to have sex and try to work out a relationship with one of two brothers who live near her home. Some weeks later she fined herself pregnant. No one knows about her pregnancy except her brother who helped her. The book ends with Maya accepting the care and support of the child she loves.

Maya Angelou through her book ‘I Know Why the Cage Bird Sings’ shows her life experience, which is not at all happy. She suffers since her childhood and throughout her life she faced different problems. Since her childhood she struggled with herself, believing she is ugly, as having skinny legs, big feet, and a gap between teeth. It is scared that she grow up confronted with personal incidents of racism, the consequences were tremendous and her mental health was destroyed. In school she was an excellent student but she was offended by the white speaker there. The speaker was expressed that black students are expected to become only athletes or servants. It is unacceptable to face racism for healthy problems. A white dentist insults her by saying that he’d rather place his hands in a dog’s mouth than in hers. This is a trouble to think that even you are ill you are not respected. The only thing that gives Maya courage was her brother and grandmother. Momma was able to discuss with the dentist about his behavior with Maya and she asked him to apologize Maya. Maya was not accepted not only by the society but even from her family. Her mother and father lives with their boyfriend and girlfriend. No one accept to live with Maya, she just visit them sometimes but the in the first time she visit them faced tremendous experiences . Her daddy’s girlfriends ‘Dolores’ was jealous for Maya, she cut her in a fight . When she visits her mother she was raped by Mr. Freemen. When she lived in a junkyard she started believing that she is not developing normally as a woman. From all this experiences she believes that something goes wrong. This opinion leads her to have sex and three weeks later she fined herself pregnant. What makes me feel story about her was their poor relationship as a family. She is not supported by her family. The most wonderful thing here was that a new human being was coming in this world. She really wants him to born and takes care after him. This is the end of the story, she started to feel confident that she will become a better mother than hers.

Two part reading response: Beloved by Toni Morrison

Beloved, is a novel wtitten by Toni Morrison, based on the true story of a black slave. Sethe was married to Halle during the time she was a slave in the " Sweet Home" the play they stayed during their slavery. After their owner Mr Garner died The sweet home was taken over by a man named " school teacher". He treated them like animals, so they decided to run away. She used to take her children into the woods and intended to kill them, she thought it would be better if they die than being slavs and sexually abused. So she killed one of them. After 20 years of that incident, one lady appeared at her door. Sethe locked herself and started blaming and loving in guilt. After Paul D returning, he tried to convince that what she did past now. In my opinion, what Sethe did was just a mother instict, she couldn't see her children living and being abused as slaves as her personal experiences so she decided to kill them in act of supreme love.

Two part reading response: “I know why the caged bird sings” by Maya Angelou

Two part reading response: “I know why the caged bird sings” by Maya Angelou

The title refers to the lack of freedom. This is the story told by the protagonist Marguerite (Maya). She and Bailey Johnson left at the early age by their parents to live in their parental grandmother; “Momma” as she called her. They were grew up by her. They came at Stamps Arkansas in the middle of the Negro area by train when Marguerite was only three and her brother four. There, she learns the harshness and reality of prejudice, discrimination and racism. Her Momma had a store in the village, which gave her a good reputation. Momma is strong enough even when they have thought about her as cowardly and not respond to the mocking of white people but she says just that she is realistic and it was for that she had managed to stand before ‘them’ until the present days. Also with a little boast she repeats the fact that she was the only woman called Mrs. It is clear that racism was present in those days , but she know how to combat it, because she is a strong woman; a woman who possesses a store and managed it by her own. The novel is about the persecution of Negros even in their home. It is said that the white in their village were so ‘’prejudiced that a Negro couldn’t buy a vanilla ice-cream except for the fourth July. They had to be satisfied with chocolate.’’(Chapter 6, p 46). Even in the simply things of life they have to be treated by their color. The racism is a strong emotion in the novel and it is treated in the eyes of a thirteen-year-old girl, who suffer from the lack of freedom to do what she wants. This leads to strong emotion and introduces us a hard life that racism causes and the bad things it brings. It is so unfair to treat a person based on the color of his skin. This feeling make her sometimes ‘escapes’ in a fairy world where she had white color skin and fairy hair with blue eyes. She finds the color of the skin as ‘guilty’ of prohibiting a lot of basic things. Bringing up a child with the idea that her skin color led to a hard life made this child to blame himself/herself and seeing this fact as a bad luck. In fact it is the others problem, because they do not know how to behave and what its fair. We should understand that it isn't skin color that makes a person, is the inner side that really matters. She was a literary girl because she reads lots of books and had another perspective to see the world. The return to her father was another chapter on her life. A father who she thought about him as being dead because there could not have other reason of letting her unknown about him. Bailey was more affected by the arrival of father and excited to know their mother. It was not the same for Maya. She hated to move away from that nest and go to another world where she felt of not belonging to. She became raped from the partner of her mother Mr. Freeman. What kind of ironic is expressed by his name as a freeman? Free to do what he wants. After hearing about her rapist had been kicked to death she decided to stop talking because it was for the words that came out her mouth that man found the death. She felt guilty and blamed herself for what happened to him. I think that she took the right decision, because someone who commits a crime must be punished. It was because of her teacher Mrs. Flowers who encouraged her of getting use of the words. It was long way of recovering her from that experience and to gain self-confident. After being graduated from high school she becomes a mother. Maybe finally she could be the mother she never had. This novel faced us with racism, rape and the consequences they bring. It makes us aware of this terrible thing and encourages us to think about solution and act in order to bring racism and everything bad related to it to an end.

Monday, 21 January 2019

READING RESPONSE ‘I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings’. Written by Maya Angelou in 1969

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, the 1969 autobiography written by Maya Angelou

This book talks about a story that is intertwined by the traumas that most people with black leather have suffered in this period of time. Racism is a very important subject in this book because Angelou was also discriminated against by the white race. For more, hit topics was the Maya rape and after this her brother's murder. This book begins at the moment Maya Angelou, known in the book as Marguerite Johnson ("Maya"). She was only three years old when she moved with her brother Bailey Johnson Jr. in California to live with their grandmother Annie Henderson ("Momma") who had a shop that was dealing with stamps. In this country they made the school and began to hate their parents because they had abandoned so much that they spoiled the Christmas gifts they had donated. Years go and Maya become 8 years old and together with her brother decide to meet their father Sr. Bailey Johnson. Who abandoned them again and they feel disappointed even after that they decided to go to their mother's house Vivian Baxter Johnson who lived with her boyfriend Mr. Freeman. He was the cause of her greatest trauma that Maya had because he raped her when she was eight years old, making her feel like a caged bird. Maya's second trauma was when she returned to her grandmother and then graduated, and no one mentioned the possibility and importance that could have black women in this society and here she wanted to be women of white skin. But by courage she had that secured her own life she made her represent a strong racial identity. After many difficulties in her life she managed to survive rape, create her racial indicts, and increase the power of woman in society.

READING RESPONSE

‘I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings’. Written by Maya Angelou in 1969

I was very dumbfounded when I read this book because it was treating history in a way that included suffering and injustice that had become an innocent child at the most beautiful age of her life. I was impressed also for this book because was based on the life of Maya Angelo and it is difficult to write down everything for your life and this is read by everyone, because it can positively and negatively affect your career. This book had moments that I did not like as it was:

1. Abandoned that parents give to their children and why.

2. The fact that their parents were separated also each had their loved ones.

3. Brotherhood of Maya's brother.

4. Maya's remained alone.

Two part reading response " Incident in the life of a slave girl".

Harriet Jacobs describes in her story her experiences as a female slave and the terror of women rights at the hands of a men. Her story is painful and this is obvious since at the beginning whrn she says " I was born to be a slave". The reasons why she was writing was not only to reveal the suffering of slaves but also the extreme gender inequality. Although there is treated the difference between white and black people. Harriet provides how difficult is to be a slave and motivate awaken the female rights in the period of time. An women whose destiny is to be a slave have a different point of view, education and humanity. As we read, we see that there are men who try to abused women sexually. Harriet provides that she's strong for her children and she won't give up. She was so brave as she break the glass ceiling through the gender and race. Harriet fights for her right as an women, as a human being and set up the stepping stone for ending the slavery disappearance.

Two part reading response "The bluest eye"

"The bluest eye" novel written by Toni Morrison tells the life of a young African-American girl named Pecola who grows up with great depression. She is regarded as 'ugly' because of her skin and she believes that whitenes is beautiful. Her parents have both had difficult lives. Her father, Cholly, drinks and her mother, Pauline, has always felt isolated. All what Pecola requires to God are a pair of new blue eyes,like she was buying shoes ,thinking she would become beautiful. What I think is that children learn behaviours from their parents and the story treats lot of social problems such as: racism,incest,child attitude and parents inferiority towards their childrens. Beauty is an obsession that has been present and it is even nowadays. We should understand that it isn't beauty who makes a person, is the inner side who really matters.

Friday, 18 January 2019

https://youtu.be/LIF5BnugxYM

Live Every Moment speech: Munida Mazari, lovingly referred to as the Iron Lady of Pakistan,openly talks about how her life changed after a car accident left her without the use of her legs and how this has changed her perspective on life. In her poewerful speech, she expresses how important it is to accept yourself in order for the rest of the world to recognize you