Girls Just Wanna Have Fun “ Some boys take a beautiful girl and hide her from the rest of the world.” The song “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” by Cyndi Lauper is a song that shows that all girls want to do is be themselves and have fun. Women in the 1930’s acted as the rest of society wished to see them and not how they chose to act. In Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, Scout a young female character does not care how a girl is supposed to act she is going to act like a tomboy if she wants to. How females were in the 1930’s and today is different in many ways but just like the females in the 1930’s, women in today’s society still face unfair treatment and some of the same expectation issues. Most females in the 1930’s worked
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In an article it says, “...women's world remained intact and the round of cooking, housecleaning, and mending became if anything more absorbing,” (Ware “Women and The Great Depression”). This statement is referring to how when everyone was in the Great Depression during the 1930’s women would still have their job of cooking and cleaning. This job kept women from focusing on the negative and focusing on the positive because they enjoyed their job of working around the house so much. In the novel females like Calpurnia took care of children, cooked, and clean which is what a housewife does. For example, “... by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl,” (Lee 117). To sum this up Scout is saying that Calpurnia makes acting like a girl seem so good to her. .Housewifes in the 1930’s were really good at what they had to do.The american housewive had to be good at what they did, because they would keep the children fed and the house clean and without them doing all of this the house could have been a terrible place to live. But it was not just the 1930’s housewife that kept the house running smoothly, in today's society we still have housewives that keep the homes running …show more content…
Girls are allowed to dress and act how they want just as long as they don’t care about others opinions. A woman writes, “ … it’s almost a badge of honour to say that you were a tomboy when you were a child,” ( Theobald “Hurrah for Tomboys!”). So girls like to view themselves as tomboys because there were so many young female characters that acted as tomboys, just like Scout who we are reading about in To Kill A Mockingbird. Although many girls will say they act as tomboys, that does not necessarily mean they do because nowadays children will say anything to make themselves seem cool. Just like in the past there are many people who view being a tomboy as a bad thing and think a girl should act proper and how a girl should act. For instance, “ … It seems like semi- sexualising girls is still the only way ahead,” (Theobald “Hurrah for Tomboys!”). This means that people will take their products and make them look and speak like a girl should speak..For girls in today’s society they don’t know how they should act, because they have people saying it’s okay to be a tomboy, but then you have product companies do things like that. Girls may act how they want but that does not mean that everyone is okay with every girl being different and unique, which is unfair if you ask
In an article it says, “...women's world remained intact and the round of cooking, housecleaning, and mending became if anything more absorbing,” (Ware “Women and The Great Depression”). This statement is referring to how when everyone was in the Great Depression during the 1930’s women would still have their job of cooking and cleaning. This job kept women from focusing on the negative and focusing on the positive because they enjoyed their job of working around the house so much. In the novel females like Calpurnia took care of children, cooked, and clean which is what a housewife does. For example, “... by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl,” (Lee 117). To sum this up Scout is saying that Calpurnia makes acting like a girl seem so good to her. .Housewifes in the 1930’s were really good at what they had to do.The american housewive had to be good at what they did, because they would keep the children fed and the house clean and without them doing all of this the house could have been a terrible place to live. But it was not just the 1930’s housewife that kept the house running smoothly, in today's society we still have housewives that keep the homes running …show more content…
Girls are allowed to dress and act how they want just as long as they don’t care about others opinions. A woman writes, “ … it’s almost a badge of honour to say that you were a tomboy when you were a child,” ( Theobald “Hurrah for Tomboys!”). So girls like to view themselves as tomboys because there were so many young female characters that acted as tomboys, just like Scout who we are reading about in To Kill A Mockingbird. Although many girls will say they act as tomboys, that does not necessarily mean they do because nowadays children will say anything to make themselves seem cool. Just like in the past there are many people who view being a tomboy as a bad thing and think a girl should act proper and how a girl should act. For instance, “ … It seems like semi- sexualising girls is still the only way ahead,” (Theobald “Hurrah for Tomboys!”). This means that people will take their products and make them look and speak like a girl should speak..For girls in today’s society they don’t know how they should act, because they have people saying it’s okay to be a tomboy, but then you have product companies do things like that. Girls may act how they want but that does not mean that everyone is okay with every girl being different and unique, which is unfair if you ask