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A Gathering Light Analysis

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In the novel, ‘A Gathering Light’ one main idea Jennifer Donnelly shows us through the book is how women are suffering from oppression. In 1906, a young girl named Mattie Gokey lives in North Woods with a dream to become a writer. Through Mattie 's journey, she challenges to overcome what the society expects her to do and not do as a woman, and the people around her who thinks her goals are absurd and the unfairness of gender roles. She was able to see and gather the determination to make a difference in women lives through the events of Miss Wilcox argument with her husband, Emmie 's life after marriage, and Mattie 's acceptance letter to Barnard
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