Final Blog

 From what we read as well as discussed in class, Women’s Literature seems like it was a way for those women to finally tell their stories, whether it was a personal or just how they felt during a specific time in their lives. These women felt that the events in their lives were life-changing enough that they decided to share them with other women as well as men, maybe thinking some man or woman could relate to them.  Basically Women’s Literature is a way for women to use their voices, women back then were basically not as vocal as they currently are today. I think women’s literature is meant to teach today’s women that everyone has a story and that they should not be afraid to tell it, because you never know if someone out their can relate to your story or not. When reading through the authors each one taught us something different, from Precious teaching about the abuse, (both physically and emotionally), clearly uneducated, and then finally finding a way to a better life for herself and her son; too Allison Bechdel who struggled with identity and sexuality.  Women’s literature also teaches us about history, personally for me I never knew very much about the story of the Japanese internment camps, the holocaust, and even Alvarez ‘s story of the four Maribel sisters. Without these ladies telling us what they went through during those awful times I may have never learned about any of these historical events as well as life changing. Also with these particular authors we got to read about their side, (the woman’s side of the story), told from their own experiences. Though these authors are telling us a story, they are also letting us know that through life’s struggles can have some type of positive outcome.

            It is important for women to their stories because for them it finally gave them a voice that they never had. It is important to understand what women when through during historical events and also how they were affected. Also reading through the stories I found it easier to relate to, well at least sympathize with the women. Though I physically was not there during the time of these stories you cannot help but feel for what these women through. For example, the Maribel sisters who were “killed” because they were sick of sitting back and watching their families being destroyed at the hands of a dictator, so they decided to take a stand but in the end their voices is what killed them. However for Bechdel and Allison they felt as though their stories were a way of release, and once they told their stories they were able to break free from all the pain and suffering they endured all those years, and found some form of happiness, you can say that they had a hopeful ending. Every story that we read was different, I feel that through such stories like the ones we read helped to pave away for woman authors today. If you take today’s women authors they too are beginning to write about there personally stories; stories about what affected them growing up, through past experiences or stories of a specific event that they feel might be important to share with other women. It is important for women to understand, is that through their stories it allows us to tell our stories and to keep on using voices and to realize that we are not alone. As long as these women continue to write and share their stories maybe it will help influence many other women to do the same. It is important for women to know that they are not alone, there is always someone out that have heard it all as well as seen it all.