Nawal El Saadawi tells the story of a woman where men tear apart her existence and she faces brutality on a daily basis. Applying the motifs of knives and blood‚ El Saadawi portrays the discrimination of gender and the misconception that women are less than men in modern Egyptian society. Firdaus has always been enveloped in hatred and misery‚ such as being forced to endure the procedure of FGM. She does not remember much more than “a woman carrying a small knife or maybe a razor blade cut off a
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It is hard to imagine how liberation could be a product bought by status. Throughout life‚ people are continuously confronted with the reality of societal rankings. Patricia McCormick’s realistic fictional novel‚ Sold‚ tells the story of Lakshmi‚ a young girl thrown into the world of human trafficking. As she is forced to come to terms with her circumstances‚ the story follows her struggle for autonomy. Through the lens of Marxist criticism‚ readers discern that economic status and social class shape
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In society today‚ many African American males get caught up with authorities. The book “Monster” tells a story about how a few young men made mistakes. The Main character Steve Harmon had made a mistake and almost paid the cost. Steve was the lookout in a robbery. A murder had occurred during the robbery‚ but Steve was not the culprit. He was the lookout‚ but he wasn’t responsible for Mr. Nesbitt. For starters‚ Steve was the lookout for the robbery because he planned it with his friends. On
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I am reading Counting By 7’s by Holly Goldberg Sloan. In this novel we are introduced to a highly intelligent girl named Willow Chance‚ who lives in Bakersfield with her adoptive parents. She was always considered "gifted" from the beginning. She is about to start in a new school and hopes to make friends and "fit in". Willow takes her Standardized Test but is accused of cheating because she completed the test in only 17 minutes. She then gets sent to a counselor‚ Dell Duke‚ who has problems of his
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In Black Skin‚ White Masks‚ Fanon writes to liberate Negroes from the complexes that they suffered as a result of colonization. He strives to restore the Negroes power of self-definition‚ self-belief‚ and identity which had been thwarted by colonization. The black man has been humiliated‚ assaulted‚ beaten and raped. In his work‚ Fanon asserts that the black identity has been destroyed. It has been recreated and shaped by the oppressive colonial culture. Fanon yearns for a new black man‚ black masculinity
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1776 by David McCullough is not just a book about the violence of war‚ but the emotions of those living during these times. The novel takes you on a journey of what life was truly like in the year of the Declaration of Independence. Leader General George Washington and two young American patriots‚ Nathanael Greene and Henry Knox‚ show the knowledge of war and the innocence of those with no experience of combat. Uncommon perspectives of situations are explained through the eyes of innocence and the
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The book titled Serpico by Peter Maas is a biography about a man named Frank Serpico. He was a police officer in New York City where he went against the system to put away corrupt officers; he was against corruption. Even though it was against unwritten law‚ he had no mercy for corruption in law enforcement. In chapter one‚ it introduced us to the main character‚ Frank Serpico. Frank Serpico is a thirty-five-year-old man who is the son of a Neapolitan shoemaker; his mother has had a series of heart
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1. In her novel Communion‚ Bell Hooks sets up a main idea‚ which ultimately reveals the reasoning in which she wrote the book. In Communion she speaks about the truth behind loving oneself. When men are growing up they are taught to be able to keep their emotions to themselves‚ while women are taught the opposite. They are taught to be able to act on their emotions‚ which gives them a disadvantage. She goes on to speak about how men do not show their feelings and emotions to the public as much as
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The first chapter of “ Ten Little Indians” was about a girl named Corliss. Corliss is a Spokane Indian and attends Washington University. Corliss has a strong interest in poetry but her family does not share the same interest; in fact her family constantly wonder why Corliss choses to continue to read these poems‚ and constantly tell her that she is wasting her time. We can see an example of this in page 13; here we have a conversation between Corliss and her uncle. Corliss’ uncle stats” I bet you’re
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Throughout life people are placed in difficult situations that test their character as well as their ability to make the right decision. However‚ there are various factors that people analyze before making decisions such as‚ “Is this the right thing to do?”‚ “Will this affect my whole future?”‚ or “Why should I do this?” In “Traveling through the Dark”‚ William E. Stafford analyzes these types of situations in the poem as he mentions a character’s journey through the Wilson River road. Traveling
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