Mhlophe herself, in her foward to the Love Child collection of writings, refers to these writings as "this journey of my life's experiences." This aptly captures the major theme of these works. The two works under discussion, 'Transforming Moments' and 'Love Child', both reflect back onto Mhlophe's life's experiences. However each of her stories reflect back in a different way. Transforming moments is a direct recollection and narrative of her experiences at age seventeen in standard nine at boarding school in Mt Frere in the Eastern Cape. Love Child, on the other hand, is written as an imaginative, fictional short story with an underlying moral. Mhlophe, in her foward, says that she is a love child herself, having a Xhosa mother and a Zulu father. Therefore she wrote Love child in reaction to the "Zulu-Xhosa War" in South Africa in the early 90's. the magic drum in the story represents the influence of the artist community in South Africa at the tim, she explains, including her own work as an artist " we were able to open doors, bring together people."
Transforming Moments, as its title states, focuses on a particular time in her life when Mhlophe was inspired and transformed to use the arts to express herself and realise her identity. her school work was exceptionally good but at the beginning of this particular time period, for example when she was in the first half of standard nine, she had a low self-esteem, regarding herself as ugly. However her church Minister, Father Fikeni, like Mhlophe and encouraged her. When the school choir rejected her because of her deep voice, Father Fekeni welcomed her into the church choir, describing her voice as "resonant". The big tranforming...
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...e motivated to change their attitudes, or even to change some aspects of society itself. "The Crocodile Spirit" captures the atmosphere when all South Africans were first allowed to vote, after the Apartheid Era, Mhlophe writes " many...were united in spirit, and carried away on a huge wave of triumph." This is inspirational writing, with the hpoe that others will also grasp the joy when certain things in society are changed, and are motivated to do their part in these changes.
In her conclusion to her foward to the collection "Love Child" Mhlophe states that "We are all called to work, each one of us; like soldiers, we must serve our country; just as we did before. It's obvious that the struggle is far from over. Everyone remember that". This is a clear example of her rallying call in her writing for changes in society.
Anne Moody's story is one of success filled with setbacks and depression. Her life had a great importance because without her, and many others, involvement in the civil rights movement it would have not occurred with such power and force. An issue that is suppressing so many people needs to be addressed with strength, dedication, and determination, all qualities that Anne Moody strived in. With her exhaustion illustrated at the end of her book, the reader understands her doubt of all of her hard work. Yet the reader has an outside perspective and knows that Anne tells a story of success. It is all her struggles and depression that makes her story that much more powerful and ending with the greatest results of Civil Rights and Voting Rights for her and all African Americans.
She showed that women could perform more than just domestic works and they could be a new force of in the war. She further manipulated with the audience’s feeling by telling them that Reed continued the women’s efforts and took leadership of the charity drive immediately after the birth of her sixth son. It was clear that Reed placed her country above her family and this created a strong respect towards Reed and other women like her. The author tried to expand that respect by telling the audiences that Reed died of fever during her work and basically dedicated her life to the country. Because Reed’s contributions and dedications towards the country were way beyond what most of the audiences have done for their country, it was hard for them to deny women’s role,
Susan Brownwell Anthony was one of the most extraordinary people of the 19th century, who rose from an ordinary Quaker world to become known as the “Napoleon” of feminism.
...is book expresses her ever-changing life and tough it was on the women of this time period.
...eristics of feminism but did not fully grasp them. They act as a perfect representation of women in the Middle Ages to Scholasticism period that went through social suppression by enlightening readers of the men’s misconduct against them. These two women started a movement that changed the course of history for humankind, even for being fictional and nonfictional pieces.
" I want something to do ' Write a book,' Qouth the author of my being. Don't know enough, sir. First live, then write.' Try teaching again,' suggested my mother. No thank you, ma'am, ten years of that is enough.' Take a husband like my Darby, and fulfill your mission,' said sister Joan. Can't afford expensive luxuries, Mrs. Coobiddy.' Go nurse the soldiers,' said my young brother, Tom. I will!' (Harper 14)." This is a dialog of Louisa May Alcott with her relatives. Miss Alcott, like many other African American women, helped serve in the Civil War. During the Civil War, Miss Alcott held a variety of jobs. Mainly working as a writer, she held positions as a nurse, teacher, and volunteered in Soldiers' Aid Societies (Harper 14). These were just a sample of jobs that African American women occupied during the Civil War.
He mentions how far women have come since his grandmother's day, but realizes the country as a whole has more room to grow. He mentions how tough it can be for women to juggle a demanding career while raising a family. Both text reference what honor motherhood is but they also admit the demanding workforce can determine how successful a mother they can be. Women today may not face slavery, but they face double standards that limit them to be successful professionals and parents.
On January 5th, Helen stood in front of thousands of people encouraging them not to participate in the war. Her goal was to make people realize that they were not living the perfect life. That all they had to do was take a stand towards the government and the government could do something about it. Helen wanted them to "strike...
see her work was not in vain. And that the revolution she and other ladies of
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, along with many other women, packed into a convention on a hot July day to all fight for a common cause; their rights. At the first Women’s Rights convention, Stanton gave a heroic speech that motivated the fight for the cause to be even stronger. Through Stanton’s appliances of rhetorical devices such as emotional, logical, and ethical appeals, she was able to her win her point, change the opinions of many, and persuade people to follow her.
...nspired to make a change that she knew that nothing could stop her, not even her family. In a way, she seemed to want to prove that she could rise above the rest. She refused to let fear eat at her and inflict in her the weakness that poisoned her family. As a child she was a witness to too much violence and pain and much too often she could feel the hopelessness that many African Americans felt. She was set in her beliefs to make choices freely and help others like herself do so as well.
During the Middle Ages, Courtly love was a code which prescribed the conduct between a lady and her lover (Britannica). The relationship of courtly love was very much like the feudal relationship between a knight and his liege. The lover serves his beloved, in the manner a servant would. He owes his devotion and allegiance to her, and she inspires him to perform noble acts of valor (Schwartz). Capellanus writes, in The Art of Courtly Love, “A true lover considers nothing good except what he thinks will please his beloved”. The stories of Marie de France and Chrétien de Troyes illustrate the conventions of courtly love.
In order to further discuss her main points and views, a summary of her story
Rick Warren once said, “Transformation is a process, and as life happens, there are ups and downs. It’s a journey of discovery-there are moments on mountain tops and moments in deep valleys of despair” (Warren 1). When a person goes through his or her own transformation, many events and influences occur that effect who he or she will become in the end. Things like personal events, family, friends, current events, and achievements in that person’s life, play a major role in a person’s transformation. Transformations can either happen for the better or for the worse. The person at the beginning of their transformation may not always be the person they wanted to be in the end. However, when most people do undergo a complete transformation, it is often for the better for that individual. Kate Chopin underwent a complete transformation in her own life because of events that took place throughout her life, the time period in which she lived in, and her writing of the stories “The Awakening,” “Story of an Hour,” and “The Storm.”
Gender equality in America is a war that is still being fought today. Around the time of the war of 1812, American women were silenced from debate in public circles which forced them to share their opinions, perspectives, and ideas in private. Rosalie Calvert lived in Maryland during the war and she took responsibilities that many women did not. For example, she took control of family investments, land purchases, and decision for her children. She wrote a series of letters to family members to express her opinions, experiences, and perspective. Her letters represent the desire of American women to delve into the public sphere, to gain equality by establishing themselves as intelligent, and to raise their daughters to become independent in the hope of future gender equality.