"Gender and Sex Roles"

The main topics in Trifles of Susan Gaspell are the gender and sex roles, two aspects that are still being a problem in actual time. As we see in the story, women are often considered to be mere trifles, unimportant issues that bear little or no importance to the true work of society, which, of course, is being carried out by men.

As we have heard on Beyonce’s popular song, “Flawless”: “But why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage, and we don't teach boys the same? We raise girls to see each other as competitors Not for jobs or for accomplishments Which I think can be a good thing But for the attention of men We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings In the way that boys are Feminist: the person who believes in the social Political, and economic equality of the sexes”. Men is seen as the powerful superior leading person in a family, and women the person that takes care of the home and the kids. This perspective is really wrong. In the past weeks Puerto Rico had a dilemma about gender perspective in which they wanted to teach little children that there are no such thing as a color for a girl or a toy for a boy.

                                 

What really captivate my attention in trifles are the two distinct narratives, one male and one female. Both trying to solve the crime, but because the men do not expect the women to make a contribution to the investigation, they are disinterested in the women’s astute impressions and valuable findings that solved the murder case.

Women have raised me, my mom is a dental assistant, and my grandmother is a lieutenant. I respect the women gender because I’ve seen the power women can have in society. How my grandmother had at her time more power than many men in the police department. Women have the same power that men have, stereotypes should be broken, and we should start working more for the benefit of our country.

“Journal Experience”

         The journal notebook has been a great experience to do every day I felt sad or bored. Not only because it was part of the class more than that it was a great way to express everything I had in my mind every single time I needed to get it out of my head. Also when I felt mad it was the greatest way to feel better. When I first started writing in the journal it was a little bit hard because I thought about specific things and didn’t let my hand go with the flow of what I was thinking. Then since I had to write so many times a day I start writing more fluently and without thinking any specific things. For example at first I wrote about only one topic in the journal, eventually I could mix so many topics in one journal. I wrote for ten minutes every time I wrote, in this ten minutes I could write two exact pages, but sometimes I could write one page and a half.

         I like to mention last semester I had a journal for my other English class called “Human Condition in Literature” but in that other class the journals had a topic and it was a little harder to write. Surely writing what I had in my mind without having any specific topic to write helped me to develop my ideas and how to write in a journal. One of the hardest parts in the activities of the journals for me was the grammar in some of the words. The words that have double s or double n, where really hard and still are being hard for me I don’t know how to write them correctly. Not only the practice of the writing part helped me increasing the fluency when I’m thinking in English, but also in my skills to talk with others in English. When I finish this class I’ll try practicing my English with a journal, because this is a great way to understand better the language, and sometime to autocorrect your mistakes.

        Another hard part for me when talking in English is to think in this language, I’m always thinking in Spanish; therefore I have to start developing a way to start thinking in English. When I develop what I just mention I know my English will be more fluently, and I noticed the use of the journal had helped me with this. That’s one reason I want to continue doing a journal. The other reason I have is because I feel so free to say everything I want in a piece of paper without no one telling me that what I’m writing is right or wrong. Sometimes what I do when I have a struggle in a word, I write the possible ways of writing that word in the same sentence, When I finish my writing I verify the word on the internet. This was a great experience to improve my skills in so many ways.

A room with a View, class difference.

    Lucy Honeychurch, a young Englishwoman, makes her first visit to Florence, Italy in the early 1900's. There, she meets a quiet yet eccentric young man named George Emerson. Upon her return to England, Lucy must decide whether to follow through with her marriage to her stoic fiancé, Cecil, or follow her heart and her growing attraction to George.

   A huge problem is the family history which is interposed in the relationship for the difference in social classes. We can see an example of this in the following quote: “There was a haze of disapproval in the air, but whether the disapproval was of herself, or of Mr. Beebe, or of the fashionable world at Windy Corner, or of the narrow world at Tunbridge Wells, she could not determine. She tried to locate it, but as usual she blundered”. Because of this difference Lucy does not follow her heart, I think she feels the pressure of not disappoint her family.

    Money is important to have a family, for comfort, but if a person is happy with someone who has nothing to offer, only love, they should follow their hearts and stay with that special person, maybe when we are superficial we lost a lot more, and live an unhappy life. There are people in life who have money and do not want to work, or care to work. There are some others that may be poor and want to work and be successful with determination, and for their social classes, they don’t give the opportunity to this people to excel.

    Times have changed; this is a 1908 novel by English writer E. M. Forster, about a young woman in the repressed culture of Edardian era England. Very few people actually care about what others who have such money, race, or family, although there are still people with that kind of mentality. In my opinion this is a wrong way of thinking and putting my happiness in others people hands it’s really wrong. I Follow my dreams and do what I feel comfortable of doing without caring what people have to say.