Comparing Women in Raisin In the Sun, House On Mango Street, and Yellow

Roles of Women in A Raisin In the Sun, The House On Mango Street, and A discolor plentitude In Blue piddle A Raisin In the Sun, The House On Mango Street, and A Yellow Raft In Blue Water all contain strong, defined images of women. These women control and atomic number 18 controlled. They are suppress and liberated. Standing tall, they are confident and independent. Hunched low, they are vulnerable and insecure. They are grandmothers, aunts, mothers, wives, lovers, friends, sisters and children. Although they span a wide range of years and roles, a vernacular thread is woven through all of their lives, a thread which confronts them twenty-four hours in and day out. This thread is the challenge they face as minority women in America to bechance liberation and freedom from lives loaded waste with manacles. These women fight to live and in their living they display their capabilitys and their weaknesses. They demonstrate the opposite word many women face being viewed as t he inferior sex as well as discrimination against their paganity. In this struggle Hansberry, Dorris and Cisneros depict women attempting to find confidence and security in the society around them. Comparing and contrast the novels A Raisin In the Sun, The House On Mango Street, and A Yellow Raft In Blue Water, three principal images of women emerge their strength, bondage and liberation. These images combine to depict the struggle of many minority women, regardless of their ethnic background, and shapes the character they draw from society. Now--you say after me, in my mothers house on that point is still God...There are some ideas we aint going to have in this house. non long as I am at the head of this family (Hansberry 51). From Mamas fervid statement in A Raisin In the Sun, addressed to ... ... in the previous(prenominal) has held them down. Finding strength in this new liberation they will be released to assist others in gaining their freedom and becoming whole individ uals. We take courage and inspiration from the lives of Beneatha, Esperanza, Mama, Evelyn, Rayona and others as they display the struggle toward true womanhood and the strength to come back. For the ones who cannot leave as easily as you (Cisneros 105). Works Cited Blicksilver, Edith. The ethnical American Woman. Kenall/Hunt Publishing Iowa, 1978. Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street. unexampled York Vintage Books, 1991. Dorris, Michael. Yellow Raft on Blue Water. New York H. Holt, 1987. Hansberry, Lorraine. A Raisin in the Sun. Literature and Its Writers An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. Eds. Ann Charters and Samuel Charters. Boston Bedford Books, 1997. 1829-96.