Jennifer Lopez
Brianna M. January 10, 2014
Pablo Casals 181 Literacy 708
Formal Writing Task
Should women be allowed to have equal rights ? Sojourner Truth and Alice Walker both discuss that women do the same jobs as men and they don't get the rights they deserve , even though they struggle for justice. Sojourner Truth's perspective on civil rights is that men weren't better then women because women were doing both men and women jobs. They were all negroes so they were battling. Alice's perspective was that even though slavery ended women were still fighting like men to be treated equally.
Sojourner Truth did everything on her own as a man would do on there own. For example in paragraph two of the article
"Ain't I a Woman" she says "Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a women ? Look at me! Look at my arm! ". This means nobody ever helped her, she did everything on her own without any help this is why she's so strong and powerful. She uses another metaphor " I could work as much and eat as much as a man when could I get it and bear the lash as well! " She means she could work as hard as a man eat as good as a man and still do everything on her own. Within her story she uses the strategy of descriptive language to show how powerful and strong she was.
Alice Walker believes that even though slavery ended women were still fighting like men to be treated equally. For example she said " How they battered down doors and ironed starched white shirts". Meaning women did the same as men, but didn't receive enough credit or equal rights for what women did as men did. Another metaphor is " A place for us how they knew what we must know without knowing a page of it themselves". This means they knew what the others knew without being told themselves. The strategy she uses to covey her
Pablo Casals 181 Literacy 708
Formal Writing Task
Should women be allowed to have equal rights ? Sojourner Truth and Alice Walker both discuss that women do the same jobs as men and they don't get the rights they deserve , even though they struggle for justice. Sojourner Truth's perspective on civil rights is that men weren't better then women because women were doing both men and women jobs. They were all negroes so they were battling. Alice's perspective was that even though slavery ended women were still fighting like men to be treated equally.
Sojourner Truth did everything on her own as a man would do on there own. For example in paragraph two of the article
"Ain't I a Woman" she says "Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a women ? Look at me! Look at my arm! ". This means nobody ever helped her, she did everything on her own without any help this is why she's so strong and powerful. She uses another metaphor " I could work as much and eat as much as a man when could I get it and bear the lash as well! " She means she could work as hard as a man eat as good as a man and still do everything on her own. Within her story she uses the strategy of descriptive language to show how powerful and strong she was.
Alice Walker believes that even though slavery ended women were still fighting like men to be treated equally. For example she said " How they battered down doors and ironed starched white shirts". Meaning women did the same as men, but didn't receive enough credit or equal rights for what women did as men did. Another metaphor is " A place for us how they knew what we must know without knowing a page of it themselves". This means they knew what the others knew without being told themselves. The strategy she uses to covey her