3 Articles

I thought that the three articles were all very interesting. I thought each were different because of the language and the time in which it was written. In fact, I thought the coolest thing about each of these articles was the difference in each woman’s language whether it was Alice Walker’s southern family in the 70s, Sandra Cisneros Mexican-American family in the 90s or Jane Slaughter’s Detroit family in the late 80s; each story had its own tone. However, I thought that there were numerous similarities, the main ones generally being about family. The main thing I noticed with the first two was that there were a lot of brothers so their fathers are very hard to impress. I think the main theme I noticed would have to be the how each woman overcomes an obstacle that is centered around the men in their life. An example for each one would be would be how Alice Walker ends up being the responsible adult that none of her brothers turned out to be despite her father’s doubts of the woman she would become. Sandra Cisneros left for college and was still able to please her father despite his ideas. And Jane Slaughter was able to get by the rumors or thoughts of her husband speculated by her peers, due to her black eye, or “beaut.”