Reb Smolinsky Identity

She has no one to lean on for financial support and is forced to become part of the working class. At first Lily embraces it because independence is something she has been searching for throughout the novel. There is even an instance when Rosedale offers to help her, claiming: “ ‘I’d set you up over them all-I’d put you where you could wipe your feet on e’m’ ” (Wharton, 300). Rosedale offers Lily the ultimate social standing upgrade.

“She shuns conviction, choosing to infer/ tenets of every mind except her own.” Once she settles down with her family, she should be happy but is not. She has sacrificed her worldly ways and pursuit of knowledge for the comfort of traditional homemaking. While this may be rewarding for some, it quite obviously does not satisfy her. She relies on the wealth of her husband and sacrifices her own independence.

In the book The Breadwinner it implies many strategies parvana showed perseverance through her many struggles. (AnnaKate and Emily) To begin with, Parvana shows perseverance by cutting her hair to look like a boy so she can have a job and keep her family alive. The author wrote “While it was on her head, it had seemed important.

Women in Radha’s culture are raised to meet a man’s needs and desires, not their own. Radha feels guilty that she cannot have children, because that is what a woman is expected to do in the Indian culture. It is apparent in the film Fire that she has never been as close

Societal expectations of women during this time period were for women to follow orders from their husband no matter the conditions. A man would not necessarily get married for love, but rather for the ownership of the women. Edna’s attempt to become an independent women is made difficult due to the the expectation from others, including her husband. When discussing with Doctor Mandelet about going away with her husband, Edna responds, “Perhaps-no, I am not going.

This theory was applied in Carmen’s life when she took the decision to realize the abuse was too bad in her home. She took the decision to convince her mother to leave her father and give her and her siblings a better life. Carmen was also realistic enough to realize she could not keep her un born child as her own if she decided to take to term. She knew she could not be able to afford it so she was looking for alternative solutions.

This continue you the argument of whether Dee has a crisis because the reason she is so defensive of her new personality proves that she is confused about who she really is. This brings the reader to believe that she really wants to be something she is not. Mama found this new way of life strange from Dee 's new style of what she eats, what she wears, and the way she presents her new attitude. Dee 's was not raise like this she learned this new behavior from when she was at college. When Dee insist to push her new attitude toward not getting the quilts and other heirlooms, this angered Mama because she knows that this is all a fake image Dee is filling her head with (Walker).

Considering a one income family was no longer an affordable reality; women entered the workforce and continued their education. However, as depicted by Brady, what did not change was the pre-conceived notion of a wife’s responsibilities because she was still expected to assume the same domestic burden without fail while earning a living for their family (Brady, 1972). The family dynamic in the 1970’s changed. It was time to reevaluate the traditional role of a husband and a wife that would develop into a mutual and concerted effort by both marriage

A long time ago, people who were Jewish had to face a crucial discrimination ever since others blamed them for killing Jesus. Nobody exactly knows what the truth was but believes in religion books where the elders’ deformed words of Judaism were recorded. Based on the “Sister Rose’s Passion” documentary, Rose Thering - a Roman Catholic Dominican Religious Sister - questioned this false belief towards the Jewish people and dreamed of a world without religious prejudice, wishing teachers to educate their students to make her dream a reality. No one, especially including the Jews, should be raced or hurt by any opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience. Throughout the movie, Sister Rose encourages everyone to “Be an Upstander, Not a Bystander” for the Jews.

For instance, it is prohibited to wear a garment that consists of wool and linen. In addition, it is prohibited for man to wear a women’s garment and vice versa. However, the priests are the main dressing aspect that is discussed in details in Torah because it represents a reminder to the jew to stick to what is written in Torah. I found an interesting fact about the dressing code in Jewish culture which reflects the religious identification, social status, and the emotional state. For instance, a married Jewish woman must cover her hair to show to outsiders that she is no longer single.

In Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska, Yezierska depicts an immigrant family living in poverty during the 1920s. The narrator Sara Smolinsky, the youngest daughter out of a family of six watches her family go through marriage, poverty, death, and the evolution of the family dynamic. Sara watches all three of her sisters being forced to marry to men that don’t love because of their status. In the end, Sara decides to move out of the house at 17 to escape the oppressive environment of her Orthodox Jewish father, so she could pursue her dream of becoming an educated teacher. The Bread Givers shows the disconnect between the first and second generation, the alternative gender roles in an immigrant household, and the importance of marriage.

Paula Jackson History 2010 John O’Keefe 2/22/16 The Struggles of Females in Society In the book Breadgivers there seems to be an issue on how women are looked upon in the society. It is very interesting how Reb Smolinsky, the father, viewed women and their roles in not only in the society but in the family.

Identity is the fact of being who or what a person or thing is. In both short stories, the characters struggle with injustices of society. In A&P by John Updike, the main character Sammy is a sexist, rude and chauvinistic young man who judges three young girls who walk into the store by their physical appearances and learns that conforming to societies norms isn't right. Also, in the short story The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara the main character Sylvia is an inner city kid who gets taken to FAO Schwartz and learns the lesson that African Americans and White people aren't equal. Both short stories highlight that the world isn't fair to people, and you have to make a difference to change it.

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