- Aunt lived in Bombay 

-aunt died and left Virginia a lot of money and her legacy

-bisexual, had an affair with a a women

-free thoughts of women and poverty

- why haven't women achieved the sam things men have

-examples of oppresion

- inequality between genders

- women have no personality 

she explains how they do.

- society is run by man, woman will live longer than men becasue they are so protected

- women need a room of there own for privacy. 

The momment before the gun went off 

Nadine Gordimer

- white farmer accidently killed farm hand which turns out it is his son

- farmer thought gun was empty and not loaded.

-farm hand- looking for game

-afraid of black rebels

-blacks are always pregnant

blacks save up to pay for the funeral, farmer pays for the entire funeral 

**** we discover at the end that the society will never know that black boy was the farmers son and the connection between whites and blacks that no one wants to admit. 

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The Day the Books Burned

Jean Rhys

- Mrs. Sawyer is not British (colored)

-allows Mr. Sawyer to think he can abuse

-colonial status- discrimination who was not born in England

-colonoalism affected every part of the Dominica 

-Mrs. Sawyer puts a good book written by a women in the burned pile to get back at Mr. Sawyer