relfection on half the sky
Half the Sky Reaction Paper
Genna Fugate
Saint Francis College
Half the Sky Reaction Paper A lot of people don’t know about the trial and tribulations that women go through in other parts of the world. I also had no idea just how much women suffer in other countries until I read Half the Sky by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDonn. This book is truly heartbreaking and will definitely leave an impact on you. While reading this book I was so disgusted by the way men treated women in foreign countries like Cambodia, India, Africa and etc. I feel like it is a shame that these issues like rape and trafficking were not made a big deal. How could men treat women so cruelly when women hold up half the sky? To me, that statement “women hold up half the sky” means that women make the world go round. Women are the ones who have to go through child birth, the ones who clean and cook, and last but not least, they are the ones who can make a house a HOME. Women play such an important role all around the world. Without a woman there would be no man. The first heartbreaking story that I read was about a young girl name Srey Rath. “Rath’s saga offers a glimpse of brutality inflicted routinely on women and girls in much of the world” (p. xiii). Rath is a confident Cambodian teenager. When Rath was fifteen years old she decided that she would go to Thailand to work as a dishwasher. Her family ran out of money and she wanted to help pay bills. Rath thought she would be safe because she was going to travel with four other friends who were promised the same job. When the girls arrived to Thailand, some thugs sequestered Rath and two other girls into a Karaoke lounge that operated as a brothel. A brothel is a house where men can visit prostitutes. The thug had explained to the girls that he paid money for them and that they were now obligated to pay him back. He said, “you must find money to pay off the debt, and then I will
Genna Fugate
Saint Francis College
Half the Sky Reaction Paper A lot of people don’t know about the trial and tribulations that women go through in other parts of the world. I also had no idea just how much women suffer in other countries until I read Half the Sky by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDonn. This book is truly heartbreaking and will definitely leave an impact on you. While reading this book I was so disgusted by the way men treated women in foreign countries like Cambodia, India, Africa and etc. I feel like it is a shame that these issues like rape and trafficking were not made a big deal. How could men treat women so cruelly when women hold up half the sky? To me, that statement “women hold up half the sky” means that women make the world go round. Women are the ones who have to go through child birth, the ones who clean and cook, and last but not least, they are the ones who can make a house a HOME. Women play such an important role all around the world. Without a woman there would be no man. The first heartbreaking story that I read was about a young girl name Srey Rath. “Rath’s saga offers a glimpse of brutality inflicted routinely on women and girls in much of the world” (p. xiii). Rath is a confident Cambodian teenager. When Rath was fifteen years old she decided that she would go to Thailand to work as a dishwasher. Her family ran out of money and she wanted to help pay bills. Rath thought she would be safe because she was going to travel with four other friends who were promised the same job. When the girls arrived to Thailand, some thugs sequestered Rath and two other girls into a Karaoke lounge that operated as a brothel. A brothel is a house where men can visit prostitutes. The thug had explained to the girls that he paid money for them and that they were now obligated to pay him back. He said, “you must find money to pay off the debt, and then I will