Lost Names Literary Analysis

For thousands of years in many, if not all cultures, men have been dominant over women. For example, women need to cover their bodies and if they are even allowed to get a job, they are limited to certain fields of work. This is especially true in the book, Lost Names. Throughout the book, Lost Names, there are people and events included to show the reader what the book has to say about the relationship between men and women. That is men are more important than women in society, a man has the right to dictate a women’s future, and men are more suitable for war and violence than women. Throughout Lost Names, the idea that men are more important than women is expressed over and over again. The narrator and his sister are having a one on one talk and they share how they feel about the new baby. The following quote exhibits their feelings about their new sister, “and to my surprise, she has been friendlier to me since the arrival of the baby, who turned out to be a girl, to my disappointment” (Kim 89-90). The narrator is saying that he did not want a girl sibling; he wanted his mother to have a baby boy. This is because he wants his family to keep the importance his father has

That is, men are more important than women in society, a man has the right to dictate a women’s future, and men are more suitable for war and violence than women. As mentioned in the beginning of the essay, womens’ rights have been suppressed for thousands of years all over the globe. Today, in some countries women are not allowed to vote or even walk the streets alone. But that is changing; women are tired of being second class citizens and are taking a stand for what is rightfully theirs and if men do not change, men like the ones in Lost Names, women are going to leave them