What is oppression? According to the dictionary, oppression is prolonged cruel or unjust treatment or control. What is freedom? Freedom is the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint. In the books, Bread and Roses by Bruce Watson and The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women who started it by Jo Ann Gibson Robinson oppression and freedom are tackled in different ways. In the book Bread and Roses oppression is described in the ways the mill workers are treated by the owners. The long work hours they had to endure for a paycheck so meager the workers are barely able to provide for their families. Freedom is described as the strike the workers start in order to obtain freedom from not only the treatment
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The book I preferred was Bread and Roses because it was an easier book to read, The way The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women who started it is written made it hard to follow, The author sometimes made sudden jumps from speaking about the situation in Montgomery to what her opinion and what was happening to her. Plus, the excessive use of exclamations really made it difficult for me to follow. It felt like almost every single one of her opinions were put in exclamation marks. As far as what is going on in this country right now the book that best relates would be The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women who started it. The boycott for them was for better treatment on the bus can be connected to the Black lives matter movement for better treatment of blacks in the country. The police harassment endured by the boycotter’s example of this is the killing of Brooks by police all stemming from an argument between him and the driver over the bus fare, (Watson 21) this kind of conduct by the police still exists now with the shooting and killing of unarmed black citizens by the police. Though years later the issue of black treatment is still at the forefront of Americas problems, but if the boycotters taught us anything. It is that change is possible we just have to be
The book I preferred was Bread and Roses because it was an easier book to read, The way The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women who started it is written made it hard to follow, The author sometimes made sudden jumps from speaking about the situation in Montgomery to what her opinion and what was happening to her. Plus, the excessive use of exclamations really made it difficult for me to follow. It felt like almost every single one of her opinions were put in exclamation marks. As far as what is going on in this country right now the book that best relates would be The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women who started it. The boycott for them was for better treatment on the bus can be connected to the Black lives matter movement for better treatment of blacks in the country. The police harassment endured by the boycotter’s example of this is the killing of Brooks by police all stemming from an argument between him and the driver over the bus fare, (Watson 21) this kind of conduct by the police still exists now with the shooting and killing of unarmed black citizens by the police. Though years later the issue of black treatment is still at the forefront of Americas problems, but if the boycotters taught us anything. It is that change is possible we just have to be