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 tree Street, and A Yellow bulk In Blue Water A Raisin In the Sun, The House On Mango Street, and A Yellow Raft In Blue Water every(prenominal) contain strong, defined images of women. These women control and are controlled. They are oppressed and liberated. stand 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 baffle a wide range of years and roles, a common medallion is woven through all of their lives, a thread which confronts them day in and day out. This thread is the challenge they face as minority women in America to find liberation and freedom from lives loaded down with bondage. These women tug to live and in their living they display their strengths and their weaknesses. They demonstrate the opposition galore(postnominal) women face being viewed as the inferior sex as t umefy as discrimination against their ethnicity. In this struggle Hansberry, Dorris and Cisneros depict women attempting to find trust and security in the society around them. Comparing and contrasting 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 combination to depict the struggle of many minority women, regardless of their ethnic background, and shapes the denotation they draw from society. Now--you say after me, in my mothers house there is shut away God...There are some ideas we aint going to have in this house. Not vast as I am at the head of this family (Hansberry 51). From Mamas ardent argument in A Raisin In the Sun, addressed to ... ... in the past has held them down. decision strength in this new liberation they will be released to promote others in gaining their freedom and becoming whole individuals. We take courage and vehem ence from the lives of Beneatha, Esperanza, Mama, Evelyn, Rayona and others as they display the struggle toward true womanhood and the strength to add up back. For the ones who cannot leave as easily as you (Cisneros 105). Works Cited Blicksilver, Edith. The Ethnic American Woman. Kenall/Hunt Publishing Iowa, 1978. Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street. New 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.