In both Graceland and So Long A Letter there are many challenges that the families face that put stress on their families and lives. In Graceland, Elvis is tested with challenges that affect him throughout his life. From the slums of Lagos to his family issues, more specifically his mothers death and fathers struggle with alcohol. In So Long A Letter, Rama struggles with family life when her husband abandons her and her family and marries a new life. This abandonment makes her have economic difficulties and makes her struggle to support her family. Elvis faced many different challenges in his life. For starters, his mother died when he was a young kid. She suffered from breast cancer. She then died and this is when Elvis’ life started to
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For example, she was faced with both economic and cultural challenges when her husband left her for another woman. Although it is okay for men to do this in their culture, Rama still felt abandoned and felt like it was wrong. This is a cultural challenge that she faces. She tries to make the best of it by coming to a point in her life where she is okay with the past and become content with what has happened. The economic challenge that her and her family faces is providing financially for her family. The father is usually the sole income for a family so when he abandoned the family, so did the …show more content…
The abandonment of her and her family by her husband is not something that men do. In African culture, men are allowed to have more than one wife, but they need to be able to still provide for the family and wife he left. However, for Rama, this did not happen. So for her, I doubt that male dominance really matter to her. She was abandoned by her husband who is to be there for her forever, but he left. Rama is a strong independent woman who could obviously survive without her husband. But the culture says something different. The culture says that no matter what men do, they will always be at the top and will always reside over women. In So Long A Letter, the view of male dominance, no matter what has been done can be summed up in a quote from the book; “yet man takes himself to be a superior being” (Ba 83). This quote shows that no matter what is done by men, they will always been seen as the most dominate person in the
For example, she was faced with both economic and cultural challenges when her husband left her for another woman. Although it is okay for men to do this in their culture, Rama still felt abandoned and felt like it was wrong. This is a cultural challenge that she faces. She tries to make the best of it by coming to a point in her life where she is okay with the past and become content with what has happened. The economic challenge that her and her family faces is providing financially for her family. The father is usually the sole income for a family so when he abandoned the family, so did the …show more content…
The abandonment of her and her family by her husband is not something that men do. In African culture, men are allowed to have more than one wife, but they need to be able to still provide for the family and wife he left. However, for Rama, this did not happen. So for her, I doubt that male dominance really matter to her. She was abandoned by her husband who is to be there for her forever, but he left. Rama is a strong independent woman who could obviously survive without her husband. But the culture says something different. The culture says that no matter what men do, they will always be at the top and will always reside over women. In So Long A Letter, the view of male dominance, no matter what has been done can be summed up in a quote from the book; “yet man takes himself to be a superior being” (Ba 83). This quote shows that no matter what is done by men, they will always been seen as the most dominate person in the