-For this last blog on 2 or 3 things I know for sure, I want to talk about how the main character Dorothy (though this is an autobiography) deals with her struggles in comparison to the many other female characters we have read about over this semester. In this story we read about Dorothy’s struggle in being physically abused, raped, somewhat tortured physically and mentally by her own family and stepfather.
- In all of our other stories we’ve read, there has been a pattern of women struggling. Either by how they are treated, what they experienced, or how they lost a person they loved dearly.
In 19 varieites of Gazelle we see Naomi find a sense of gratefulness when her grandmother passes on. In krik krak we see the women losing the one’s they love, prostituting for the sake of one’s child, and seeing a mother being treated as a witch.
- -In every story we have that the majority of the female characters have been extremely strong and have amazing will and perseverance. Being enslaved, beaten, used, and even raped, they all still find their ways to cope.
- - Dorothy like all of the other women found her ways to cope. She showed us that she was refusing to be what her other family members were. The things that she was taught not to do, she wanted to do. Despite how she was treated by her family, not shown love or anything towards what beauty is, she opens up to life and doesn’t get caught up in the past. In our last book, Rosa coped by not moving on for a long time from the past. Here, Dorothy leaves the past behind by focusing on not being what she was taught to be. She focuses on living life free, and loving people.
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