Catherine Pigott's Chicken-Hips

The shaping of a person’s mind is a process which everyone has or will eventually go through in their lives, but at a higher chance of being judgemental towards oneself or others. These come in many forms in the world, where individuals are continuously dealing with the aggression of their cultural environments. Catherine Pigott’s “Chicken-Hips” is a great representation in writing that describes this common issue faced by people, particularly to women in our society.

Catherine Pigott tells her story in the first-person form to deliver a very personal experience. It is very effective in her writing as it lets the reader be involved instantly with the author to which the readers would either agree or form conflicting opinions. However, in either way, the aim to create an engaging impact in the readers mind and question the social practices becomes more effective because of the writing style. She express an informal tone in their writing that makes an easy-read for the reader and yet also helps to follow through in a more personal level like one would if reading one’s diary. For example, the writer uses short and long sentences to provide a better understanding but also to emphasize on the points she is trying to make. Pigott writes, “I join the …show more content…
Pigott raises the issue of women being faced with a certain beauty in our society, where specific requirements towards their behaviour and looks exist. Pigott presents her confrontations of two different cultures with different perspectives on women’s’ supposed beauty in terms of their physical appearance. It is obvious that women are being fed with a supposed social idea of beauty from a very early age of their childhood. Pigott grew up in a puzzling society and face the daily battles of having to shape themselves accordance with common societal bias. If opposed, they are faced with embarrassment and fear of