Woman On The Edge Of Time: Mother To The Tribe
Beginning of paper
Throughout time people have been questioning their society. Many
wonder if the beliefs and customs of their culture are actually what is in
the interest of themselves or even the masses. Times of hardship can
create strong and powerful people to bring about change; however the means
to achieve s ....
Middle of paper
.... Time is a story of a
middle aged Chicano woman who has been denied the right to live with the
socially prudent. According to Kevstin Shands, Piercy says: "It is
primarily a novel about Connie. There's a lot about social injustice in it,
and about how a woman stops hating herself and becomes able to love herself
enough to fight for her own survival" (66). In Marge Piercy's Woman on the
Edge of Time the motif of mothering is the basis of the story; she uses a
mother as the protagonist and cre ....
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Page count: 9 (approximately 250 words per page)
