Ain T I A Woman Summary

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This reading called “Ain’t I a Woman” is similar to race and power in The kite Runner because it talks about how women don't have much power and how they need a man to help them into carriages and lifted over ditches. I compared this to Hassan and Ali from The Kite Runner. Hassan and Ali were both Hazara which meant they were restricted to doing lots of things just like woman were being looked down upon in the article. The article talked a lot about race as well and not just woman not having much power but in specific black woman not having much power. I thought this also related to The Kite Runner because Hazaras were looked down upon because of the way they looked.

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