Evaluation:
Published: 09.11.2005.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays '"Bondage in Roselily" by Alice Walker.', 1.
Extract

Now I am going to talk to you about bondage in Alice walker's short story "Roselily"
The word bondage which I will be talking about has the meaning of restraint or being used a slave therefore not having free will. This is what the main character; Roselily will be subjected to in the short story.
Alice Walker ingeniously structures and skillfully tells the story in the sequence of wedding vows.
Roselily is about a rural African American from Mississippi trying to escape poverty and disgrace by marrying a Muslim man believing that he will be able to "free" herself. Roselily is conveyed to b…

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