Do you mean the Russians? They are like the Bohiemian family that they are outsiders and are friendly but the rest of the area don't understand their language and are some what excluded from the outside world.
Sorry. One thing that sticks out is when they were talking about how Antonia has lost her womenly ways by working like a man. Some examples they give are when she's outside she dosn't wear her bonnet or that her manner has changed by saying she eats like a man at the table. Some local women stop that by bringing her and Lena in to a more 'cultured' work environment in town and around the house instead of in the fields.
The "Hired Girls" are the young women who have immigrated with their rural farm operating families who are boarded and worked "in town" by the many women business and home owners. The women have chosen to hire these young immigrants to secure that they do not have to work manly labor and lose their feminine sensibilities. Antonia and Lena are of the first who are selected for this opportunity and are able to provide money for their families without having to be "labored out" like men are to work their own and other peoples farms.
The hired girls were from the country had to make sacrifices in order to help their families survive their first year or two in a new country. The hired girls were less educated and were wise, mature, and physically vigorous. The Black Hawk women never exerted themselves physically and were more refined, but they were less attractive to Black Hawk men than the hired girls. Though their families might be poor, these American girls were not allowed to work for wages, as the Bohemian and Scandinavian girls did. The Black Hawk men were expected to marry Black Hawk women and live very proper lives, but the hired girls tempted them. The hired girl’s options in life are limited to becoming a wife and a mother. On the other hand, the country girls who are born poor have much more open to them. While the hired girls are able to break free of traditional male-female constraints, they do so at a price: they lose social standing and respectability.
Do you mean the Russians? They are like the Bohiemian family that they are outsiders and are friendly but the rest of the area don't understand their language and are some what excluded from the outside world.
ReplyDeleteThe chapter on the "hired" girls--there are two of them featured prominently.
DeleteSorry. One thing that sticks out is when they were talking about how Antonia has lost her womenly ways by working like a man. Some examples they give are when she's outside she dosn't wear her bonnet or that her manner has changed by saying she eats like a man at the table. Some local women stop that by bringing her and Lena in to a more 'cultured' work environment in town and around the house instead of in the fields.
DeleteThe "Hired Girls" are the young women who have immigrated with their rural farm operating families who are boarded and worked "in town" by the many women business and home owners. The women have chosen to hire these young immigrants to secure that they do not have to work manly labor and lose their feminine sensibilities. Antonia and Lena are of the first who are selected for this opportunity and are able to provide money for their families without having to be "labored out" like men are to work their own and other peoples farms.
ReplyDeleteThe hired girls were from the country had to make sacrifices in order to help their families survive their first year or two in a new country. The hired girls were less educated and were wise, mature, and physically vigorous. The Black Hawk women never exerted themselves physically and were more refined, but they were less attractive to Black Hawk men than the hired girls. Though their families might be poor, these American girls were not allowed to work for wages, as the Bohemian and Scandinavian girls did. The Black Hawk men were expected to marry Black Hawk women and live very proper lives, but the hired girls tempted them.
ReplyDeleteThe hired girl’s options in life are limited to becoming a wife and a mother. On the other hand, the country girls who are born poor have much more open to them. While the hired girls are able to break free of traditional male-female constraints, they do so at a price: they lose social standing and respectability.