D.Q. #7

3 September 2015

Memoir Discussion Questions

7a. A character that really caught my interest was the Bishop because it surprises me to see how some people can be really stuck in their ways and not want to make a change for the better. It astonishes me how these people can have such a one-tracked mind and not be willing to understand why change is necessary to grow. They are stubborn and stuck in their ways and this character reminds me of my grandfather. My grandfather is a very old-fashioned man who believes that he is always right. In better terms “it’s his way or the highway”.

b. A major conflict that I can identify with within the book are the narrators misunderstanding and disagreements with her mother. I can personally relate to this because my grandmother and I share very opposite opinions about social issues like gender equality and gay marriage. For example, I once asked my grandmother what she would do if I was a lesbian and I remember her telling me that she would have kicked me out of the house. It shocked me to see that my own grandmother is one of those people who are stuck in their own beliefs and do anything to depend that no matter what the cost.

c. Some major problems that were raised in this selection were issues regarding women’s rights, women’s need to serve men, and issues within the Catholic religion. The problem that was solved was the issue regarding women’s rights and it was solved by Sister Rosetta. Sister Rosetta began a campaign to support the change in the traditional attire for a nun. The campaign was a success and in the end the nuns were able to change the way they dressed.

e. Something I have learned through the narrator is that it is okay to question the beliefs you were raised with. When I began to question my own beliefs, it felt extremely wrong but im starting to see that in order to grow as a person and choose my own future, questioning your beliefs is sometimes necessary. Through writing about this particular conflict of women’s rights, I have learned that as a women is it crucial that I stand up for what I deserve and what I believe is the right thing. Women are a minority even in this time and era of the twenty first century and that is something us, women, need to change.