It may take a long time for oppression to be resisted, but the seeds of rebellion are sowed early in life. Do you agree that injustice in any form cannot escape being noticed even by children?
Even in today’s era in some parts of the country many people faces discrimination related to racism and their caste. Adults also have grown up seeing these types of things, the innocence of childhood doesn’t understand hatred and prejudice but when they see these type of things it affects the mind of small children. But it can be resist in their own simple ways.
In the chapter we read about the story of Zitkala-sa and Bama. In their childhood they had faced many sufferings related to discrimination of racism and untochability. Zitkala-sa told that about her first day which was “bitter cold”. It tells us about the weather but also about what she had suffered in boarding school. The European staff was unfriendly towards her and she had struggled against her hair being shingled was a “bitter” experience for her. On the other hand Bama faced untouchability. Bama walked on her brother’s footsteps to protest against the practice of untouchability through education. Therefore she studied hard to reach at the destination from where her caste wouldn’t matter and she will feel proud.
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