Read Alice Walker's "Women" and answer the question.
They were women then
My mama's generation
Husky of voice—stout of
Step
With fists as well as
Hands
How they battered down
Doors
And ironed
Starched white
Shirts
How they led
Armies
Headragged generals
Across mined
Fields
Booby-trapped
Ditches
To discover books
Desks
A place for us
How they knew what we
Must know
Without knowing a page
Of it
Themselves.
Read the final five lines of the poem: "How they knew what we/ Must know/ Without knowing a page/ Of it/ Themselves." What is the author suggesting?
that the women were smart even though they were not allowed to get a formal education themselves
that the women were not smart even though they were had formal educations
that the women were turning the page of history
that the women were not turning the page of history
Answers
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Answer:
1. that the women were smart even though they were not allowed to get a formal education themselves
2. that the women were turning the page of history.
Explanation:
The lyric spotlights on the storyteller's mom's age who were savage and fearless as they thumped down hindrances all together for their youngsters to go to class. They likely needed their kids to have a greater number of chances than they had.
The writer's tone is loaded up with reverence, assurance, and wonder for these ladies from the starting point of the poem. Towards the end, it mollifies as the ladies' main goal is clarified: to ensure their kids are instructed and educated, notwithstanding when they themselves were most certainly not.
The subject of the lyric is that moms will discover courage in their main goal to create a superior life for their kids, and that education is worth battling for.