Comparison Of Brown V. Board Of Education, And The Story Of An Hour

A person who is wronged searches for justice; a hungry person searches for food, and a trapped person searches for escape. From Books as Bombs, Brown v. Board of Education, and The Story of an Hour all detail one thing: someone trapped striving for change. Their respective authors, Louis Menand, Earl Warren, and Kate Chopin wrote about civil rights and the need for change. Betty Friedan was educated, successful, and a housewife. Friedan was seen as just a housewife. Friedan’s life could never be the same as her husband's, as women professionally were “virtually invisible” in “higher status positions” (Menand 15). Women were trapped in the place. People, believing that women were less intelligent, did not allow them into higher positions. When

Something had to change for it to come about. Menand talks about an uncharacteristic quote from Betty Frieman, believing that a housewife was in a “comfortable concentration camp” (Menand 11). Betty Friedan believed that being a housewife was a life of servitude, trapped in the service of their husbands. She wrote a book to explain these emotions. Brown v. Board of Education, and its nature of change, started with the students trapped in a terrible education cycle. The students were stuck in “segregated public schools that were not equal”, less environments than the white schools (Warren 21). The student's facilities were worse, were treated as worse than whites, and they could not get the proper education they deserved. They were trapped in this endless cycle of sub-par education. Due to these facts, the students suffered a “detrimental effect. A sense of inferiority” that “affecting a child's motivation to learn” (Warren 19). These children, being told every day that they were worse than whites, lost motivation. They lost motivation to learn and to grow. This motivated the lawyers of Brown v. Board of Education to tackle the unjust laws and school systems and change them for the