Unbowed Critical Analysis

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Unbowed

Critical Review

In reading Wangari Maathai’s memoir, Unbowed, you come to see the author’s main goals and accomplishments unfold through the different chapters of the novel. In reading the memoir, you quickly come to realize that her loyalty lies with her country, and she wants to see her country develop, along with her help. The narrative is told from the perspective of Wangari Maathai, and her experiences in life, beginning in her early childhood during the 1940s, and up until just after she received her Nobel Prize for Peace in 2004 (Maathai 2006). The use of telling different accounts of her life and different stories is used to convey Maathai’s message for places such as Kenya and other areas of the world in regards to women’s rights, social inequality, and environmental issues. Because Maathai was able to construct a memoir about her own life, and was able to be her own author, you are able to clearly visualize her
One of the theoretical perspectives that I felt was tied in to this memoir was the idea of feminist theory in a theoretical perspective. To begin, Wangari Maathai w herself was a woman that was standing up for what she believed in, no matter the consequences. During this time period as a woman, it was known that people were going to treat you differently, and they weren’t going to give you the respect you deserved. She was looked at, and treated differently in fighting for what she believed in because of her gender. It was more difficult for her to do the things that she wanted to in order to make a change. “One who believes in that men and women should be equal politically, economically, and socially” (AmazonCastle, 2006). It was people like Maathai that wanted democracy among all, and to be able to fight for what she believed in without suffering the consequences for trying to make a differences, in which she

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