English Flashcards
(3 cards)
1
Q
Body para first points
A
- Narrator enjoys work on the farm for her father
2.feels equal to her brother and proud of her skills
- Her stories show inner confidence
- Believes gender shouldn’t define her role, that her own truth is strong.
- Shows a child’s clear sense of identity before society interferes
2
Q
Body para 2 points
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- Pressure from mom and Grammy to act like a girl
2.starts being pushed to more indoor and domestic roles
- Notices boys and girls are treated differently even while doing similair things
- Begins to doubt herself and feels torn between what she wants and what’s expected
- Conflict beteeen personal truth versus social truth
3
Q
Body para 3
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- Key moment: let’s flora escape
- Instead of being seen as brave, she is dismissed as “only a girl”
- She repeats the line herself “maybe it was true”
- Begins to accept other’s view of her even tho it hurts.
- Ends with quiet surrender. Inner truth has been weakened but not erased, she will continue to feel forever