Sojourner Truth Belonging
Today I’d like to talk about the issue of belonging and how it is represented in the two separate texts, Harper Lee’s 1960 novel ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ and Sojourner Truth's famous speech, ‘Ain’t I a Woman’.
In particular I want to argue that gender and ethnicity are relevant in both text and although they were written a while ago these text are still relevant for now because they are still issues that we face. To start off, what is Belonging?
Belonging may be defined as being part or a group or organization but I think it is much more than that. There are so many parts to it, there’s family and gender, and ethnicity and culture, and friends… When we don’t belong because we don’t
fit for one of these reasons for example, because we are …show more content…
For example, close ups, by using close ups of the different characters faces it
allows the audience to connect and understand the different characters. The themes seen in TKAMB of exclusion based on ethnicity and gender also evident in Sojourner Truth’s talk, Ain’t I a Woman
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Sojourner Truth was an African American woman who, when she was nine years old was sold into slavery because her parents believed it would be a better environment for her. This says a lot about the living situation for African Americans at that time.
Later she became part of the anti-slavery movement and also a strong women's rights activist. She is best known for her speech, ‘Ain’t I a Woman’. The speech was delivered at a Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio in 1851.
As with TKAMB, the speech deals with issues of ethnicity and gender, and how people are excluded on this basis. As Sojourner Truth says in her speech, “He [men] says women can't have as much rights as men, ‘cause Christ wasn't a woman!...I could work as much and eat as much as a man”
But unlike Scout, Sojourner stands against such and fights against such exclusion based on gender. She also stood against exclusion based on
In particular I want to argue that gender and ethnicity are relevant in both text and although they were written a while ago these text are still relevant for now because they are still issues that we face. To start off, what is Belonging?
Belonging may be defined as being part or a group or organization but I think it is much more than that. There are so many parts to it, there’s family and gender, and ethnicity and culture, and friends… When we don’t belong because we don’t
fit for one of these reasons for example, because we are …show more content…
For example, close ups, by using close ups of the different characters faces it
allows the audience to connect and understand the different characters. The themes seen in TKAMB of exclusion based on ethnicity and gender also evident in Sojourner Truth’s talk, Ain’t I a Woman
Body 2
Sojourner Truth was an African American woman who, when she was nine years old was sold into slavery because her parents believed it would be a better environment for her. This says a lot about the living situation for African Americans at that time.
Later she became part of the anti-slavery movement and also a strong women's rights activist. She is best known for her speech, ‘Ain’t I a Woman’. The speech was delivered at a Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio in 1851.
As with TKAMB, the speech deals with issues of ethnicity and gender, and how people are excluded on this basis. As Sojourner Truth says in her speech, “He [men] says women can't have as much rights as men, ‘cause Christ wasn't a woman!...I could work as much and eat as much as a man”
But unlike Scout, Sojourner stands against such and fights against such exclusion based on gender. She also stood against exclusion based on