As I told before, The main character Susannah's sister Magdalena has been catched of their father while she was having sex with a local boy in Mexico, and then, the father punished her sooo hard and Magdalena used to leave from the family. This made Susannah to become a gay because of she understand it like it will not be allowed to have a boyfriend then she got a girlfriend. Ok, this used to be kind of funny right?
So actually, i think Alice wanted to tell about the discrimination against women at time period 1970s. Both to daughters and the mother was suppressed of their father and the social, only because they are women. So this book is telling about the female equality between man and woman. Especially those black women people in America who was suppressed and discriminated by both their ethnicity and female. And we can either say that Alice Walker(the author) wanted also to tell us the confidence side of human. We can see that from Magdalena and Manuelito's romantic life in the rest of the story.
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I hope one day the word "equality" represents humanity. I mean no matter what gender, race, sexual orientation or skin colour you have, you will always be known as a human being. I guess this book as you mentioned really brings out that struggle for equality. I find the theme equality kind of cliche but I understand that themes like equality and justice are something to be reminded of in this era.
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