First off women are definitely not treated as awful as the women in A Thousand Splendid Suns are, but you can still see the inconsistencies between men and women in the book. One example of this is “Yet to this day she regretted not having completed the course and received her diploma—"just to prove"—as she had told a friend, "that I once succeeded at something." Instead, she had met and married Herb, a college classmate of her oldest brother, Glenn...” (Capote 26). This quote is extremely relatable to American women especially because they are treated as humans, unlike other countries, but still not valuable as much as men in society. Women have to fight to succeed where men are given more of a path to. Here at Indian Hill, people assume college is the step after high school. Indian Hill is a bubble where a lot of the members don’t realize that not everyone goes to college. In Kansas where the story takes place it is common for women to not go to college because it was unnecessary. They would stay home with the children and do house work where an education is not needed. This is a frequent way women are treated lesser than men. Another example of the inequality in our society is the negativity we put on mental illness or special needs. In the story it is known that Perry has issues, but no one knows exactly what. Perry was given up by his parents and thrown into orphanages and homes where he was beaten and tortured. “There was this one nurse, she used to call me "nigger" and say there wasn 't any difference between niggers and Indians. Oh Jesus, was she an Evil Bastard! Incarnate. What she used to do, she 'd fill a tub with ice cold water, put me in it, and hold me under until I was blue.” (Capote 132). He had a mental illness and the rough life that he lived did not help. He had a hard childhood and ever since then we set for
First off women are definitely not treated as awful as the women in A Thousand Splendid Suns are, but you can still see the inconsistencies between men and women in the book. One example of this is “Yet to this day she regretted not having completed the course and received her diploma—"just to prove"—as she had told a friend, "that I once succeeded at something." Instead, she had met and married Herb, a college classmate of her oldest brother, Glenn...” (Capote 26). This quote is extremely relatable to American women especially because they are treated as humans, unlike other countries, but still not valuable as much as men in society. Women have to fight to succeed where men are given more of a path to. Here at Indian Hill, people assume college is the step after high school. Indian Hill is a bubble where a lot of the members don’t realize that not everyone goes to college. In Kansas where the story takes place it is common for women to not go to college because it was unnecessary. They would stay home with the children and do house work where an education is not needed. This is a frequent way women are treated lesser than men. Another example of the inequality in our society is the negativity we put on mental illness or special needs. In the story it is known that Perry has issues, but no one knows exactly what. Perry was given up by his parents and thrown into orphanages and homes where he was beaten and tortured. “There was this one nurse, she used to call me "nigger" and say there wasn 't any difference between niggers and Indians. Oh Jesus, was she an Evil Bastard! Incarnate. What she used to do, she 'd fill a tub with ice cold water, put me in it, and hold me under until I was blue.” (Capote 132). He had a mental illness and the rough life that he lived did not help. He had a hard childhood and ever since then we set for