Clare’s friend, Zoe, is also taught that males are superior to females. Zoe’s mom teaches her gender roles, “Some dem lick she down a river—dem did lick she down and dem did vi-o-late she. Poor little t’ing. But she mama should tell she not fe walk alone. Gal pickney no mus’ stay by dem yard” (Cliff 105). Zoe’s mother explains to her how a boy has raped a girl. From her understanding, she explains to Zoe that the girl’s mother is to blame for the rape because “she mama should tell she not fe walk alone. Gal pickney no mus’ stay dem yard.” It is not that the males should not rape the females, but the females are in the wrong and should not leave the yard. Society places men at the top of the hierarchy and whatever a man does to a woman is acceptable.
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In this act she becomes a gains masculinity:
The hunt for the wild pig [Cudjoe] was Clare’s idea. But neither she nor Zoe, who had gone along, saying little, had thought about the reality of it, at least not past taking the rifle and ammunition, and walking up Angel’s Hill to cut their way through to the pig’s lair with a machete. . . She was a girl, she had taken a gun and ammunition; perhaps that was forbidden act enough (Cliff 114-15).
As it states in the evidence, “she was a girl”, she is a girl who should not dare portray manly acts. It is forbidden. It is significant that Cliff chooses Clare as the female character who takes the gun and kills the wild pig. The novel specifically grants Clare as owner of the idea because Clare is the female character who has knowledge, an awareness of a rising self and does not accept matters as they are. On the other hand, Zoe would not attempt to offer an idea as such. Clare tries to escape the
In this act she becomes a gains masculinity:
The hunt for the wild pig [Cudjoe] was Clare’s idea. But neither she nor Zoe, who had gone along, saying little, had thought about the reality of it, at least not past taking the rifle and ammunition, and walking up Angel’s Hill to cut their way through to the pig’s lair with a machete. . . She was a girl, she had taken a gun and ammunition; perhaps that was forbidden act enough (Cliff 114-15).
As it states in the evidence, “she was a girl”, she is a girl who should not dare portray manly acts. It is forbidden. It is significant that Cliff chooses Clare as the female character who takes the gun and kills the wild pig. The novel specifically grants Clare as owner of the idea because Clare is the female character who has knowledge, an awareness of a rising self and does not accept matters as they are. On the other hand, Zoe would not attempt to offer an idea as such. Clare tries to escape the