Have you ever been told that you can’t do something just because your gender? Well, between these two texts, there is a common theme. The common theme between the texts is “Follow Your Heart”. This is a common theme shown between the two texts because in the passage “The Obstacle” and the play “Primed” there are girls who want to work on the ranch very badly. They are not allowed to work on the rances because they are girls and other people (men) do not want them to “hurt” themselves. The girls eventually find a way to follow their dreams. In the passage “The Obstacle” there is this girl named Sally. Sally had always wanted to work on a ranch. She couldn’t do it only because she was a girl. As the story went on, she decided to do something
All things considered, women are very underestimated when being compared to men. All women in this play were without power, a stay at home wife, without a clue and without the ability to stand on their own two feet. Whereas every male character in the play held all the power, were the bread winners, were rational and more than capable to think and be on their own. What this
Ranch Girl is a story told in the second person about a girl growing up on a ranch and all the trials and tribulations that she faces. In the beginning, the narrator forewarns the reader that growing up on a ranch is not an exciting life to live, nor is it the easiest life. The narrator states in the very first paragraph, “It doesn’t matter if your dad’s the foreman or the rancher — you’re still a ranch girl, and you’ve been dealt a bad hand.” The narrator goes on the bring the reader into the life of a ranch girl, from how she did in school, her first crush, the heartbreak of losing the first boy she had a crush on, and being a girl in a tiny town where nothing exciting or of substance ever happens. Towards the end of the story, the narrator finishes college, but instead of leaving her little ranch town to explore the big would she feels it is
Growing up on Mango Street, girls had to take two steps backward to take one forward. Just like ballroom dancing, women let men take the lead and sacrifice an extra step to continue moving on the floor. When Sally escaped from her father and married the marshmallow salesman, she had to give up her youth and femininity.
In this story, I have found that the themes that have stood out to me is gender and love. These themes have captured a major thematic idea by gender being discriminated against the women and the men. Gender is described as women being weaker than the men and men being the powerful ones. Love is described in this story as independent until it is found. Finding love is a part of life and everybody tries to find it but when it is found, it seems like you have lived you life to the fullest. These examples of the themes can be brought into the real world and can affect how people live their lives.
As she continued through the woods she kept herself calm by keeping a conversation with herself about her surroundings. She cross through the trees, and comes to the ditch, as she crosses it she
In the story, "The Obstacle" and "Primed" both develop a common theme in both texts about how they are trying to achieve their dream by working with horses or outdoors, like a man's job.
As she goes on, the story becomes more enhancing and the girls realized it is a true story about her mom. Kristin Hannah goes back and tells the fairy tale to us and slowly reveals the truth. The author uses suspense when Anya stops telling the story,
The story follows the take of a rural farm girl who feels like she should have the freedom to do what boys can do. The girl is stubborn and was able to keep her resolve at first. She defied those who believe she should just give up and behave like a “lady”. However, how much negativity can a person take before feeling isolated and hopeless. This is exactly what happened to this rural farm girl.
Some obstacles are bigger than others but with ambition comes triumph. Curly has a wife in the story that has no stated name but she is the only female character in the story, aside from aunt Clara and the woman in the red dress and the beginning of the story. She is described at the beginning of the story as a “tramp”(32). Throughout the entirety of the story, Curly is always looking for his wife and always interrogating the other workers on the Tyler Ranch, while
She had a dream, much like everyone else on the farm, a dream to become someone, but could not pursue it because of her
The girls demonstrated that girls can accomplish long term goals as well as short ones. Both Esmeralda and Nickcole were the first girls in their family to graduate and attend college. They both lost someone they loved, Esmeralda lost her father, while Nickcole lost her favorite cousin; it inspired them to fight in order to get the best out of life. Gender is an important component because it demonstrates coming of age. All the personal accounts exemplify it, whether it is growing up early because of living with the fear of death, or self- actualization.
She then looked at Mary and Nancy; both, were lying on their stomachs with their faces propped on their elbows, anxiously awaiting a story. She smiled and began telling her story.
She feared. And at the final moment, she wound up running away.
wrote the story as the result of a challenge that was set to her, her
When she was finished, she knew what she had done had been awful. She stood up, did her curtsey, and slowly walked back to her seat. She tried not to cry as she felt every eye in the room fixed upon her, and as she endured the pain from some of the negative comments some people sitting