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Nothing really stands out in this piece too much, except for how matter-of-factly she tells her story. She lists out her life, her work, everything she's done. She doesn't seem to be boasting or complaining; it's just life to her. I do wonder if she is aware of life outside the farm, if she ever wondered about not being there. - Christine Leckner | Nothing really stands out in this piece too much, except for how matter-of-factly she tells her story. She lists out her life, her work, everything she's done. She doesn't seem to be boasting or complaining; it's just life to her. I do wonder if she is aware of life outside the farm, if she ever wondered about not being there. - Christine Leckner | ||
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| + | The past couple of class periods we have discussed how women's work on the farm went unaccounted for in census and other data. This really brings that point home. I never truly recognized or grasped the difficulty of women working on the farm. The last paragraph stresses that point: "My husband says, 'You helped earn and save more than I did.' The boys many times say, 'If it had not been for your pushing and helping us to school, we never could have done so well." This encompasses the woman's role on the farm. Not only did she work insanely hard as a farmhand, but a mother still managed to fulfill the role of moral and matriarchal support.--MDvorak | ||
== Buffalobird Woman's Story == | == Buffalobird Woman's Story == | ||
