文档介绍：Women in the Cage
---Reading inspiration from The House on Mango Street Good evening everyone, today I will share will you my inspiration from the six stories we have read this week. The title of my speech is women in the cage. My speech is mainly composed by four parts. Firstly, I ’m
gonna explain the title of my speech. After that, I will compare women ’s
status in modern day china with that in the old days. In the next part, I ’m gonna tap into the root course of gender problem and finally, I will say a few words about what should women do in order to improve their status in the modern society.
Mango Street is full of women who are trapped either physically or
mentally, for example our protagonist and the four women in her
neighborhood. Esperanza herself is a tiny thing against many bricks, and sometimes she is too sad and too skinny to keep keeping. Mamacita knows only eight English words. Rafaela gets locked and drinks juice.
Beautiful Sally is short of love and respect. Minerva can do nothing but write poem to vent her discontent. These women ’s experiences give
us an insight into how low women ’s social statuses were at that time.
They were helpless, insecure, depressed and caged either mentally or physically.
Their fortune reminds me of the miserable lives of women in China in the old society. Previously, most family would feel unlucky if they got girls. There