Theme Of Feminism In The Sweetheart Of The Song Tra Bong

One of the most talked about stories from the novel The Things They Carried is “Sweetheart of The Song Tra Bong”. The story is about a girl who comes into the war very sweet and innocent and as time progresses she loses her innocence. This is a feminist concept. What is feminism? According to Boundless, “The core of feminist sociology is the idea that, in most societies, women have been systematically oppressed and that men have been historically dominant” (Boundless Para. 1). In simplified terms that just means that the in society woman have been held back and were considered useless, while the men were considered to be superior. So now that we know what feminism is we can compare it to other stories we have read this semester. The best and

In an article by Word Press they agree that, “The [Sweetheart of Song Tra Bong] challenges every idea of gender roles that have been cemented in these hyper-masculine soldiers, and in doing so challenges their idea that there is an essential different feminine identity” (Word Press, paragraph 9). In both stories the main female character is an innocent women who is almost desperately in love with their boyfriends. They are so in love that they allow their boyfriends to bring them into this new environment. In The Sweetheart of Song Tra Bong story Mary Anne, the main character, is visiting her boyfriend, Mark Fossie during the middle of the Vietnam War. While in The Yellow Wallpaper the main character, who is never named, has been sent to what we assume is a plantation where she is told to stay in bed and rest to get better by her husband,

As stated by Feminist Magazine “[the feminist movement is] committed to creating a world in which peace, with social/economic justice and compassion, prevails, in which we all have equal rights and in which differences are honored, respected and celebrated instead of persecuted, judged or even just tolerated”(Feminist Magazine, Paragraph 8). In more simple terms feminism 's goal is to create a world in which everyone is equal to each other. One where you are not judged based your gender. This applies to the stories I have listed. In The Yellow Wallpaper the woman in the end escapes form the wallpaper and frees herself from the bars of the paper. She doesn 't need John anymore and she can finally be her own person. In The Sweetheart of Song Tra Bong story Mary Anne doesn 't need Mark Fossie to tell her how to live her life. She as well has become her own person living in the forest living on the knowledge she learned from the Green Berets and the local villagers. So now I have told you about the feminism in both of the stories it is now up you to decide which version you want to see the stories as. You can take the feminist side or you could take the side of both woman just go