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  • Essay / Reading - 1023

    When we talk about the role of women in society, for centuries they have been discriminated against. In various countries, women have been presented as a sexual object, a nurturing role and, in other cases, a helpless victim. Women are more often discriminated against than glorified and in the stories "Death Constant Beyond Love", "Of Clay we are Created" and "In Camera", the roles that women play are linked by the theme of discrimination and all share the same theme. to have an emotional disconnect with men. As they dig deeper into the story of "Death Constant Beyond Love", as a reader they discover that the story is about a senator named Onesimo Sanchez who comes from a perfect family and while most of the community loves the senator , but not a gentleman named Nelson. Nelson repeatedly begs the senator to grant him a false identity, but Onesimo politely refuses until the day he meets Sanchez's daughter, Laura Farina. When the senator met Farina, he was “out of breath” (p. 991). After Nelson sees Onsimo's reaction to his daughter, he sends her to visit the king. The senator immediately falls into the trap and tries to take advantage of the opportunity to see Laura. In the book, his fate is described as "unusual beauty was even more demanding than his pain, and he then decided that death had made his decision for him." » Onesimo discovers that Laura wears a belt and therefore cannot take full advantage of her, but agrees to grant his father's wishes. As she lay in his arms, he said, "Forget the key and sleep with me for a while." It's good to be with someone when you're so alone. After the senator rejected the key, the book describes that six months and eleven days after that night, he died in his bed completely apart... middle of paper ...... she didn't not been abused, she was still in great pain and grief after the loss of her family. The author of this story says that women are discriminated against because she was born in the 1940s and is from Chile. In her biography, she writes: “I was in no way meant to be a liberated person. I was a woman born in the 1940s into a patriarchal family; I was supposed to get married and make everyone around me happy. –Isabel Allende (p. 1224) Overall, these stories all represent the same theme: women doing something that changes the lives of others, the corruption of the media, and the discrimination of women because of their gender. As a reader, these stories have been my favorites throughout this term and as a young woman in society with big goals, I feel like women's equality is a constant struggle, not only in other countries but also in the United States..