" No Named Woman" - The Woman Warrior

This story touched my heart as well, it made me think about the role we must keep up with as a woman especially depending on what culture you come from. I recognized that in the Asian culture that family is very important. This woman killed herself and her new born child because she knew if she would have left her child alive her family will treat it unfairly. She drowned herself in the well because she committed adultery. She was named the " No Named Woman" because during this story that was being told by a mother to her daughter because her named was not mentioned through out the story. It shows the difference between the roles of women and men in a community, men on the hand would have gotten praised over the same thing she did. That turns my attention to cultures that has those double standards and ever wonder if we can ever get over it.

No Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid

This  story really touched me because it reminded me of my homeland Jamaica. Kincaid goes on about tourists not knowing the full story of her homeland Antigua. She explains that her country's government really only cares about the part of her country that attracts tourist. They invest all their money into the parts that make money and that's not always a bad thing, but her point was what about the parts of Antigua that needs the funds as well. What happened to the parts of Antigua that is just made up of her people and who needs to add more schools and concreted roads. This reminds me of Jamaica because similar events are occurring. I hate that the Caribbean government itself has been so corrupted whereas people now have to figure out that their beautiful country is deteriorating before their own eyes. Why wont the government put the same funds and investments into their own people?