Growing Up Rhetorical Analysis

With no children shrieking, or large women singing, she feels at peace in the silent solitude. Chopin uses the characters Mademoiselle Reisz and Madame Ratignolle to foil Edna and highlight her two lifestyle paths as a woman. In the pursuit of redefining her identity, Edna Pontellier struggles to deny her previous self as a mother, while also transforming into an independent individual, ultimately proving that a woman in the late 19th century cannot truly escape societal conventions. The initial description of all three women immediately sets them up in contrast. Chopin introduces Mademoiselle Reisz as a “homely woman” that possesses no taste in clothing and always embellishes her hair with an artificial violet (Chopin 33).

Skeeter, the only white character in the book that we get to witness from their point of view. It is clear from the start that Ms. Skeeter cares more about what’s going on in Jackson, Mississippi than her other friends. The best proof we have of Ms. Skeeter showing her love and compassion is when she plans on writing her book about domesticated help and their stories. This may only seem like a book, but it is a vehicle that she uses to display her love for all the maids in the city and how she needs things to change. That is proven through a quote from the book, “Write about what disturbs you, particularly if it bothers no one else” (Stockett 83).

Independence vs. commitment Since the beginning of the novel, we can appreciate that Bathsheba is a strong, independent woman who knows what she is doing and seems like she knows what she wants. As we can recall, when Oak asked her to marry him Bathsheba said that she did not want to be any men’s property, at least not in that moment. From that moment on we can see her display a magnificent role; when she inherited her uncle’s farm many of her workers were not happy with this because Bathsheba was a woman, but she showed them that it was not important because she could be as efficient as any other man and that she did not need a man by her side to do the hard work. These facts show us that Bathsheba is independent. On the other hand, as soon as she meets officer Troy, Bathsheba falls for him and marries without hesitation, she did just what she said that silly girls usually do and she would never do; for a while, Bathsheba is faithful to officer

Kweku and his friend Nana consider all African Americans white because of the immersion in Western culture. “It took an exquisite stole, originally ordered by an ambassador’s wife, to appease her the day his friend Nana called her white. Vanessa was one of those African-Americans who had more white blood than black.” Vanessa Has grown up in a post colonial culture despite her skin color and her ethnic connection to Ghana. To kweku and his friend, she might look black, but she has the mindset of someone who is white because of the culture she has grown up in. Vanessa Has never grown up like an African or lived like one so she can't relate to them which is why Nana insulted her about it.

Silent Speech in Audre Lorde’s Zami: A New Spelling of My Name Even though, she was born on February 18 1934 as Audrey Geraldine Lorde, her name quickly changed to Audre Lorde; “I did not like the tail of the Y hanging down below the line in Audrey” (Lorde 24). She was only 4 years old when she made this decision, already marking her head-strong character, which Audre Lorde possessed throughout her turbulent life. Not only was Audre Lorde a fervent civil rights activist, but also a devout feminist, however she described herself as; “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet” and “dedicated both her life and her creative talent to confronting and addressing the injustices of racism, sexism, and homophobia” (Poetry Foundation). Most of Lorde’s poetry and critical essays are focussed on black female identity, feminism, civil rights issues or a combination of these issues. Moreover, Lorde states in Sister Otsider: Essays and Speeches that; “Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.

Vance illustrates the statistics that children like him living in these towns were lucky if they just manage to avoid welfare or unlucky by dying from a heroin overdose. However, the outcome of Vance’s life was different as he was graduated from Yale Law School, able to get a well-paying job and currently living the American Dream with his wife Usha. The purpose of the author in this memoir was to understand the reader of how social mobility feels and more importantly, what happens to the lives of the white working-class Americans, in particular the psychological impact that spiritual and material poverty has on their children. J.D Vance provides an explanation for the loss of the American dream to poor white Americans living in a toxic culture in this Ohio steel town. Throughout his early childhood of Vance’s life can be described as chaotic.

A similar situation happens when she went to visit her sister-in-law in Colorado. Lastly, she talks about the privilege the white people have to be accepted in a university or haven’t been expelled from school because their skin color is white. Now she knows “how system work and where it gains its power” (154). The interracial marriage is very complicated because the racism is everywhere and they should know how to protect each other.“Dark trees in the landscape of love” by Kao Kalia Yang is reading about the lives of Hmong girls married white men and how their lives are different. Kalia Yang started the story talking about his nephew preference for black trees, not bright trees, showing that all colors of the trees are beautiful not just the bright ones.

67). In this conversation between Clare and Irene, Clare explained that she has no more concerns about being safe ever since she has passed. Living her life as a fairly-wealthy white woman has made her distant from happiness and security; she has already taken so much risks passing, that in her own words, “one risk more or less, if we’re not safe anyone,

Mama even recognizes this when she says, “. . . that “no” is a word the world never learned to say to her [Dee]” (147). Mama sees that Dee has been able to walk over everyone due to the fact no one has ever challenged her.

At the start of the book, the family was normally one man who had many wives. He would have many children with each wife. The men ran the village while the women were expected to cook, clean, and take care of the children. For example, when Effia asked Abeeku a simple question her parents gave her a sharp look to tell her she should not have done that (8). As the book goes on and the tribes start to trade with the British, the women start marrying the white men from the castle.

Reading Response to The Slogan: “Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History” written by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. Is an article about the fame to a single line from a scholarly article that she published in 1976, In the opening paragraph of the article was the now famous quote “Well-behaved women seldom make history”? When I first read this quote, I felt it meant; if women want to make history they need to make a huge impression on people. It almost means to me that if you do not speak up, you will never be heard. Remember closed mouths don’t get feed.

Melba shows a great amount of courage in her memoir. The first time she shows courage is when she signs her name on a special paper. "When my teacher asked if anyone lived within the Central High School district wanted to attend school with white people, I raised my hand. As I signed my name on the paper they passed around, I thought about all those times I 'd gone past Central High," (Beals 19). This quote demonstrates true courage because she knows how attending Central High may be a downfall for her and her family since she will have to confront the racial slurs of the caucasian population, costing them agony and energy.