Suddenly it shook, the pump-WAIT! Huh, what do you want?! Also, you just ruined the story! *Sigh* Hey, it's not my fault you just started in the middle of the story!!! Well, we can do something li-Ponies riding stuff *Little Laughter*, na just joking… Um… got any ideas? Not really, wait I think I got one… Once upon a time, a girl named Hai lived her life working on a pumpkin farm… One day, a scientist came and stop by and willing to ask if he can take a few pumpkins, although she was stubborn she said “Okay, why not, but you’ll have to give me the experimented pumpkin if the experiment is successful.” The scientist muttered, “Okay, but don’t say I warned you…” While she was waiting days became weeks, weeks became months, months became years… …show more content…
That seems simple I guess… I’m pretty sure it was a really hard job for being a maid. Eh… I guess you have a point, okay let's continue. Okay, for Jennifer this seems like years to her, but she was just hired weeks ago. Sometimes new maids would be hired, but end up fired. Is it okay if I interrupt? Well, sure since you just did right now… Well, in the story you never told who hired her. Yeah, well-you should always show evidence like what Mrs. Virden said… Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, I’ll add it, lemme try again… Okay. In 1400s, Jennifer, a maid who got hired weeks ago by a royal family, The Stuarts. The Stuarts family had 2 kids and their mother and father. When they were arranged, they actually like each other and had high salaries. Years later an infant was born, months later, another one was born. They were usually called “The Trouble Makers” in the mother’s and father’s perspective. Soon they had to hire a maid to clean up all the messes “The Trouble Makers” had made. When the maid, Jennifer came, she was a huge help to The Stuarts. Every time if she cleans at least 10 messes the kids made, she would get an “Upgrade.”
At a very young age Leila was forced to be the sister-in-charge and make decisions that a young girl twice her age would not normally be expected to produce. Mah began working as a seamstress before the girls would wake up, and continue working until after they would fall asle...
owner of Maplewood, so this made her a slave from the moment she was born. When she was old enough, she became a household domestic, waiting on the family and performing cleaning chores.
She sets out to explore the world that welfare mothers are entered. The point was not so much to become poor as to get a sense of the spectrum of low-wage work that existed-from waitressing to housekeeping. She felt mistreated when it was announced that there has been a report on “drug activity”, as a result, the new employees will be required to be tested, as will the current employees on a random basis. She explained feeling mistreated, “I haven 't been treated this way-lined up in the corridor, threatened with locker searches, peppered with carelessly aimed accusations-since junior high school” (Ehrenreich,286). The other problem is that this job shows no sign of being financially viable. Ehrenreich states that there is no secret economies that nourish the poor, “If you can 't put up the two months’ rent you need to secure an apartment, you end up paying through the nose for a room by the week” (286). On the first day of housekeeping, she is yelled and given nineteen rooms to clean. For four hours without a break she striped and remake the beds. At the end of the experience she explained that she couldn 't hold two jobs and couldn 't make enough money to live on with one as where single mothers with children. She has clarified that she has advantages compare to the long-term
As Janie is growing up she has to learn to accept her Nanny’s belief of how a woman is supposed to live in society. Nanny grew up in slavery so she believes that the role of men is to support his wife financially. Nanny thinks Janie should marry a man according to how successful he is and Janie should keep up the household responsibilities. Janie’s grandmother said, “Ah been waitin’ a long time, Janie, but nothin’ Ah I
There are, however, contrasting views of Antonia, as well as the hired girls in general within the Harling household. In particular, Mr. and Mrs. Harling have different attitudes toward Antonia as their “hired girl”. Mr. Harling holds high expectations for his children and Antonia. He has a tendency to be disappointed or easily angered with the members of his family. He is extremely strict, demanding, distrustful, and very protective of the people living in his home. Mr. Harling is considered to be a curmudgeon. In one particular instance, he expresses his feelings about Antonia after her night out in town. He states that she has “got the same reputation” of most girls who are easygoing (140). With his distr...
Kate was looked down upon by the male blacksmith in which they believed she was inferior. During one of Williams joust his armor was damaged and he had no money to get it fixed. He tried to barter with the male blacksmith but they would not take on the task. William took the task to Kate saying that the male blacksmith where talking about how bad her work was which is why she took on the task. Kate was confident in her work and decided she could challenge the social outlook that was put on women during the medieval times.
In the 1800’s, women lived under men’s rules and ideologies and were forced to conform to the social “norms” of the time. To women, these rules seemed normal as they were used to them. In the story, Jane is put in a nursery because she is said to be sick and
Within this chapter, Barbara Ehrenreich experienced the maid’s life by becoming a maid. She was employed for three weeks by The Maids International in Portland. During her employment, she worked with team members to clean multiple houses. Cleaning up after the owners Ehrenreich subjected herself to “about 250 scrubbable
The responsibilities held by a housewife had immense importance in her role in society. Women were responsible for preserving the boundaries of social and cultural life. When this process was disrupted, the authority and identity of the housewife were put into question, she could no longer control the processes needed to fulfill her role. Instead of admitting this loss of control, it may have been easier for the housewife to blame a witch, usually someone who had wronged her. (Starkey 24)
Although Martha did have different jobs to do, her real job was being a midwife. She got paid high for a woman at this time and she was a well respected person in the town. This job was the most demanding and it?s not like...
are less than a servant for you do nothing for your keep"(14).She must stay in
One of the most common expectations for women then is that they are responsible for doing the chore of cleaning whether it is cleaning the house, doing the laundry. The McGuffey Readers mentions the women’s duty to clean in a multiple places. In this handbook it gives clear directions to the woman on what she is to do when cleaning, “This ceremony completed, and the house thoroughly evacuated, the next operation is to smear the wall and ceilings with brushes dipped into a solution of lime… (Gorn 111).” The book explains how it is the women’s job to thoroughly clean the house once a year in a manner that sounds very laborious! It further states, “The misfortune is, that the sole object is to make things clean (Gorn 112).” In this part of the book it is very clear that it is saying that the woman’s duty is to clean. In Women’s Diaries of the Westward Journey it illustrates this in a couple of passages. For example, one woman wrote in her diary, “Oh! Horrors how shall I express it; it is the dreaded washing day . . . but washing must be done and procrastination won’t do it for me (Schlissel 83).” Although this woman obviously did not like doing the washing she saw it as her job to do. In addition, the book describes this scene, “The banks of a river would be lined with women who carried their kettles, their washtubs, and piles of unwashed linen (Schlissel 82).” Again, it is the women who are doing the cleaning. The McGuffey Readers being the handbook that young girls would read in school taught them that it was their place to do the cleaning. It is apparent that they took that into consideration as shown by the Women’s Diaries and even today is seen as their role.
...could relate to the daily struggles of completing chores to please their husbands and children and understood how Minnie Wright could develop feelings of desolation due to the lack of variety in daily activities. When the men found the unwashed towels by the sink and the burst jars of fruit in the cupboard, they quickly took a tone of disgust and disappointment that Mrs. Wright fell short of her “womanly duty” of picking up daily messes. Women in the early 20th century often were not rewarded for completing difficult tasks amongst the homestead on a daily basis, but could be punished and mistreated for not completing the tasks in a timely manner. Glaspell’s work “offers a sympathetic portrait of an abused wife, a woman who is mistreated economically, psychologically, emotionally, and perhaps physically… [her actions] supporting battered woman syndrome” (Keetley).
The family is the stereotypical farming and labour father who wants to enlist his son to take over while the mother is the homemaker and is looking for the help of her daughter inside the house. The narrator and her brother, Laird, are fighting when the narrator “[uses] all of [her] strength against him” when her brother catches her arm for a second her father “[laughs], saying ‘Oh, […] [Laird is] [going to] show you, one of these days!’ Laird [is] getting a lot bigger. But she [is] getting bigger too’ (Munro 4). The story is set at a time where women do not fight back against men and are expected to act with poise. Though the narrator is holding her own against her brother, her father still knows that one day he will be the one fighting and getting stronger. Additionally, it is believed that the man’s work is of more value and importance over the woman’s. Among the family it is known that “work in the house [is] endless, dreary, and peculiarly depressing; work done out of doors, and in [the] father’s service was ritualistically important”, the farm work and labour done outside is of more praise and honour than the housework and work of a female (Munro 3). This due to the fact that the male figures in the family are the breadwinners and leaders of the household at this time, the females work, though maybe not as tough as the male’s job was not as important
had done it all herself, poor thing. She had no maid and it was the