Three Essays

These three essays are all well written, by women, who all hold something inside them that makes them feel uncomfortable. In Brothers and Sisters, the author shares her views on her parent’s upbringing of her and her five brothers. She dislikes the way her father teaches his sons about women. He encourages them to chase all the ladies they see and have fun, yet views women as disgusting and perverse. When his other daughter takes his perspective and turns it on men, he punishes her for exploring her love for young men and promiscuity. In the second story, a young Mexican-American woman is not viewed by her father as a daughter, but as one of his seven sons. He never recognized any of her accomplishments unless they involved marrying a man. She finally finds peace with him later in life after she wrote a successful book that was based in Mexico. The third essay is similar, when a woman receives a black eye from walking into a street sign and notices how uncomfortable people get when they see it, thinking her boyfriend did it to her. All of these stories are based around the unbalanced relationship between men and women in several different ways, depending on the person. I think these stories are good to read in this session, because we are studying women in literature, especially poetry and other various literary art forms.