Thursday, October 18, 2007

Breakin Down The Woolf

This book no doubt is easily up there with the most confusing books to read. There aren't really paragraphs and there aren't really pauses in the reading. Also the chapter is a good twenty one pages long. So if a sophomore in high school would actually have to read this book. I would tell him that this is a book about the hardships of women. And the hardships that she has to go through herself. There are many examples of how the women in the book are not shown the respect that they deserve. For instance the fishing scene and the library scene are perfect examples. She also talks about how poor women are. And to do anything women have to have money. The narrator in this story is always interrupted when she is doing something that she enjoys by a man or figure of authority. This is how i would describe this to my little cousin.

2 comments:

Tracy Mendham said...

Yes, Woolf likes a long paragraph!
The chapter compares the fictional men's university, Oxbridge, to the women's college Fernham, to show the difference between men's and women's access to education, tradition, and money.

Tracy Mendham said...

Is HW 22 in the works?