Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Potential...
The book is pretty crazy and has made me do some thinking as well as connections with life at the present. The girls in the book are hindered and held down from thier full potential by men, thier race, and poor circumstances. They are defined by all the things that could describe them, but that doesn't have to be that way. In our lives also, we can all be something great, we just have to stop being dumb, lazy, permiscuous, destructive, careless, disrespectful, trashy, and not compromise our own values. Life is what you make it, so make it the best it can be, and don't let your circumstances define you... You control the outcome of your life, so make it one of value and avoid regrets!
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The color purple makes me feel lucky to live in this time period. because if some man was raping or beating his wife they would go to jail there would be some form of a consequence to suffer. and today women are becoming more powerfull and are senetors, congresswomen, and potential leaders of our country. we are pretty lucky to live here and know because we have so much more opprotunitys and louder voices.
ReplyDeleteDang, Jake. You should speak at graduation. Lol.
ReplyDeleteWe are lucky to be living in this time period. I can't imagine what it would have been like to be a woman in that time.
That is a really nice motivational speech Jake. We are all victims of our own complacency. I hope you guys all get out there in the real world, get off your butts, and do something spectacular. "I sound my barbaric YAWP over the rooftops of the worth...." Be barbarians!
ReplyDeleteIm so glad that i didn't live back then. Even though im white and i would have been treated differently then the black women in this book, women were still not treated as equal as they are today.
ReplyDeleteI definitely have to agree with every one of you. However, I do have to add that like the discrimination still present towards different races and religions, women still are not treated as equally as men. Yes, there are cases where only women are hired for certain job possitions whereas there are no men to do the job, but there are still many circumstances that come about that prove we are the "weaker sex" or the ones who are looked at as less important. And not just in other countries where it is more obvious, but in America as well.
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