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When talking about the role of women in society for centuries they have been discriminated. In various countries women have been displayed as a object of sex, a nurturing roll, and in other cases a defenseless victim. Women are more often discriminated than glorified and in the stories "Death Constant Beyond Love", "Of Clay we are Created", and "In Camera" the roles that the women play are connected by the topic of discrimination and all share the same theme of having a emotional disconnection with men.
Delving deeper in to the story of “Death Constant Beyond Love”, as a reader they find out that the story is about a Senator named Onesimo Sanchez who comes from a picture-perfect family and while most of the community loves the senator, a gentleman by the name of Nelson does not. Time after time Nelson begs the senator to grant him a fake identity, but Onesimo politely denies him until one day he meets Sanchez’s daughter Laura Farina. When the senator meets Farina he was “left breathless” (pg 991). After Nelson sees Onsimo’s reaction to his daughter he sends her to go visit the king. Right away the senator falls for the bait and try’s to take advantage of the opportunity of seeing Laura. In the book his fate is described as “unusual beauty was even more demanding than his pain, and he resolved then that death had made his decision for him.” Onesimo finds that Laura is wearing a belt so he cannot fully take advantage of her, but agrees to grant her father his wishes. As she lay in his arms he said, “Forget about the key and sleep awhile with me. Its good to be with someone when you’re so alone.” After the Senator rejected the key the book describes that six months and eleven days after that night he died in his bed completely alo...

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...e was not being abused, she was still in great pain and going through a large amount of sorrow after the loss of her family. The author of this story relates to women being discriminated because she was born in the 40’s and came from chili. In her biography she wrote “I was not supposed to be in any way a liberated person. I was a female born in the ‘40s in a patriarchal family; I was supposed to marry and make everyone around me happy.” –Isabel Allende (pg 1224)
Overall these stories all represent the same theme of women doing something that changes another’s life, corruption of the media, and women being discriminated by their gender. As a reader these stories have been my favorite through this term and as a young woman in society with large goals I feel as if women equality is a constant struggle, not only in other countries but in the united states as well.

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