Summary Of Half The Sky, And The Woman Warrior

Another form of oppression that was rampant throughout Half of a Yellow Sun, Half the Sky, and The Woman Warrior was the issue of classism. Sex slavery and other types of slavery that occurred in different parts of Asia are not only a matter of oppressing women and children because of what they could provide; their provisions to the industry or brothels never allowed for the possibility of upward social mobility. Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn (2010) noted that out of the two to three million prostitutes in India, many were willingly prostitutes but did not willingly join the sex industry. This confirms the social immobility with being a woman in the sex industry in India. A young girl can be forced into sex slavery and that is the only skill that she is able to provide to others. This
There was a lack in aid by the government and other social institutions for young girls and women who were forced into sex trafficking. Kristof detailed a conversation with a border patrol officer stationed between India and Nepal. The officer expressed the inevitability of prostitution in order to protect middle-class Indian girls. He referred to the Nepali girls as peasant and illiterate as if their only other choice is to be a prostitute. Many other young women, mentioned in Half the Sky, faced issues of the lack of education and impoverished conditions which was created by a society that did not allow these persons to escape their wretched situations.
In The Woman Warrior, it is obvious that Brave Orchid had been a part of two