Motherhood In Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Introduction:

“When we think of a mother we think of a role model , comforter and a lover. Nowadays , most women’s vision and dream is to be a impressive mother , being someone their child and even witnesses , can look up to. There is different features of life describe motherhood. Traditions and civilization along with society impact the role of motherhood. In the society , if the mother is not mature enough to raise the child , a close female relative takes on the role of the mother. Feminists preserve that motherhood as created by patriarchy is extremely oppressive. It is faraway from being a liberatory and inspiring experience for all women. It has been very important to challenge the idea of patriarchy that happiness comes …show more content…
Taylor. In Roll of Thunder , Hear My Cry , Cassie looks up to her mother. Her mother Mary is a strong woman who can hold her own against those who face her. She works as a schoolteacher and one of her important moments happens when she disregards the lessons in the class textbook and discusses slavery with her students. Despite disapproval from others and she struggles to tell her students the truth about the world they live in. Cassie views her mother as strong and determined. Though , the historical settings of the novel (Mississippi during the Great Depression) is sufficient to afford opposition for this character. Her position as a black woman prevents people from taking her seriously and in some level , she does live in terror of revenge from the white men in the town who try to silence her. She attempts to set a good example for her children by teaching them to stand up for themselves , yet she can’t push past the prejudices and pressures of violence. She intensely cares for her four children , which is obviously shown through her actions and words. Also in the novels of Dickens just as the unpleasant sorrows of his own childhood times find their way into most of his novels , making them extremely moving reads , so also his associations with women , starting with his mother , form the psychological complexities in his novels. Looking …show more content…
That women also view the world from masculine eyes is a sad but unfortunate fact. The struggle in realizing change in this awareness lies in its subtlety. It is informal enough to point out the difference between a male and female’s pay for the same job. It is a particularly more difficult task to try and clarify why a man and a woman doing two different jobs having dissimilar salaries may also be a consideration of gender-produced inequality. Why is the woman working at a job that pays reliably lower salaries then the man’s job does? To show the fundamental truths , the right questions must be asked. Male is the model ; humanity is viewed as masculine. On the one hand , what male and female have come to mean at the present time is changing our definition of society. These changing roles and imitations are quite noticeable in what we read , in what is being written. What is attractive to note is the wide range of male roles , and the control with which female literary characters follow to the classic manners. If in fact literature is a reproduction of our reality , that despite individual views it mirrors social ways , then women’ changing roles by the social , political or expressive in life and literature , must not be ignored. But if in fact civilization is male , then literature must also be male. Though , writings about females by males