Book Report in the Life of Laetitia - 2015 Words

Book Report On â€Å"In the Life of Laetitia† Merle Hodge ‘In the life of Laetitia’, published in 1994 by Farrar Straus Giroux of New York; Paperback, Aerial Fiction, 244 pages. The Novel was written by Merle Hodge a Trinidadian novelist and critic, she’s a lecturer at the University of the West Indies, she’s also the Author of the 1970 novel ‘Crick Crack, Monkey’, which is a classic of West Indian literature. The story is about an adolescent girl (Laetitia) who begins on a life changing journey, after successfully passing the common entrance exams that enables her to attend the government secondary school in La Puerta. It was a dream come true, as no other member of her family had an opportunity to obtain a secondary education. It bring to†¦show more content†¦Harvesting what he didn’t plant, no hard work done on his path. I ask myself the question if Lacy was a boy would he have treated her in such manner. He believed a son is more of an asset and importance instead of a daughter. That goes to show the gender prejudice within the book and also in the cultural beliefs in Trinidad. In the Caribbean we were face with issues of gender and gender inequality in the past. A woman had to know her place and boundaries in society and the home. In those days a woman was expected to be limited to what she must do and active part in decision making, in most cases limited to the day to day running of the house and taking care of the children. The boys were not trained or taught to take part such skills leaving all the work to the girls, while the boys run wild. Doing so will only continue the cycle as boys in turn will be men and that’s how customs were pass down through generations. Various part of the novel express such issues, on page 84 when Mr. Cephas came home from work and met his son at the sink washing wares, he blow up in anger and rage at his wife Ms. Velma for having his own washing wears and accusing her of turning his son into a ‘damn cunumunu’. He even went as far instructing him to curse his mother. That speaks volume as how Laceyâ€℠¢s father saw women and their rolls. Ms. Velma was like a living dead practically invisible to her husband. Never once in the novel there was anythingShow MoreRelatedCentra software 502009 PDF ENG Essay7368 Words   |  30 Pagescustomers. I say use telesales to make the first sale into a Global 2000 firm, and then use field sales to sell to other ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Research Associate Laetitia Pouliquen and Professor John Deighton prepared this case. HBS cases are developed solely as the basis for class discussion. Cases are not intended to serve as endorsements, sources of primary data, or illustrations of effective or ineffective managementRead MoreEnglish Source Doc.7581 Words   |  31 PagesTwins, I, 100). Finally Herminia Barton, the heroine of the 1895 best seller, The Woman Who Did, like Hardy s Sue Bridehead, argues for free love because marriage itself is still an assertion of man s supremacy over woman. It ties her to him for life; it ignores her individuality. Herminia continues, If I love a man at all, I must love him on terms of perfect freedom. I can t bind myself down to live with him to my shame one day longer than I love him; or to love him at all if I find him unworthyRead MoreStandardization Adaptation15058 Words   |  61 Pagesstandardization and adaptation Purpose: Compare two strategies, standardization and adaptation, to show how companies manage cultural differences. Method: Our research method is a descriptive one. Then, we collect data from secondary sources such as the books, articles, journals and studies. Then, we judge essential to gather primary data to answer our purpose. In this way, we do one qualitative personal interview with the international marketing director of Agatha and one email interview with its communication