Can 4 simple words can have so much meaning to a story and in real life. The Friday Everything Changed by Anne Hart.
Identity: To identify how to be the same and equal is very important. This story puts a fine line between how young boys and girls should act and feel. Everyone should be able to feel like that can be unique in there own way. The story shows how young women could not (really) express their own feeling and opinions. Not verbally or physically, it just seemed out of the question to change how each sex acted.
Resilience: The students in the story showed resilience. They showed great strength to put up with all the stereotyping. You may think that the girls showed much greater resilience because of putting up with not being allowed to carry the water bucket. The students and their peers are very strong for putting up the unwritten rules about how they should live.
Balance: Everyone needs some sort of balance in life. This can be like having balance of fun/work or like in the story a balance of equality. The kids in the story are following some kind of unwritten rule, saying that girls have to stay inside and cook with their mothers, while the boys are in the field working with there fathers. Our society and changed a lot by making it normal for people to do whatever they want, in any field of work.
Movement: The movement of people to make each other equal. The young students in Miss. Ralston’s class seem like they are two groups of children when they are all really the same. What says that boys have to sit together at the back of the class while the girls sit at the front. Cant they collaborate and play baseball together?
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