Assignment -12

In search of our mother’s garden.What black women are looking for?Black woman are in search of equality,self-respect,self-worth,so they are in search of themselves.Black woman are tired to do what they are told to, by their masters and to do it right,because on the other hand they would be treated as animals.They don’t want to be an object anymore in the hands of the white ones.I think that black woman knew for what they were in search but they just didn’t have the strength,the courage to act,to raise their voice and it is exactly in this book that the author describes the hardships and the strength of black woman.I liked very much the title,to be in search of something of our mothers which in the story symbolizes the garden.The author spoke a lot about her mother and the garden.The garden which symbolizes the strength and courage that I mentioned.Garden was important to her mother.It was a way of her mother to do what she loved.Taking care of the garden,flowers, was a way to express herself,her soul.It was her passion and she never give up and kept doing what she wanted.So a message of this story can be that you should just keep doing what you love,it doesn’t matter if you are black or how badly can people treat you.Your life is in your hand and you are the only that can decide how your garden should look like.

The bluest eye

It is a sad story and I can’t say that I liked it,because I didn’t like what Pecola went through as:prejudice,abusement,rape which are also the main themes of the story.I also didn’t like how Pecola expressed for herself.She thought that she was ugly and that whiteness is beautiful.Something that attracts me was her desire for blue eyes.Firstly when I started reading the story and relating to the title I thought that the bluest eye represented her sadness,her reality,her family which just a “normal” family couldn’t be.Maybe she thought that having blue eyes her life would change completely and she could felt  “beautiful”These eyes could change the way how other saw her.She thought that people would be nicer to her.By the end she obtained her blue eyes in her mind of course,but none of her problems have gone away.In fact people rejected her more than before,because  people will always find something to discriminate you.I understand her difficult life ,what she passed through not just the prejudices by people,also the fact that she was raped by her father,but it has not sense to change yourself to be admired by the others because in the end you also will not know yourself and if you lose yourself for what you live for.Sometimes people should not change themselves to be liked by the others.