Throughout Tina Rosenberg’s Necessary Angels, the unforgiving and deprived lifestyle of rural Indian women reveals the inexorable reality and fragilities of gender roles amongst women in labor. As a result, many of these unfortunate women barely cling to life due to a trickle-down effect that far surpasses their capabilities and intentions. Fortuitously, an effort to not only impugn this rooted problem, but to resolve this plague has been met head on with a few brave individuals, mostly being women. This short essay examines how these efforts have emblazoned the harsh reality, these women go through and invigoration of women’s individualities of rural India.
The systemic problem that is tormenting the rural Indian women of Jawalke are the lack
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Describing her social life, Samantha states, “I couldn't believe how cruel and hateful people could be ... people who used to be my friends. School became something to dread and life seemed worthless (Gerson and Lundsten 72). As a result, Samantha spirals down into a deep depression, dehumanizing her native individuality and decision. Feeling hollow and meaningless, Samantha can no longer bear the unrelenting agony of society’s recoil—having no ideal role model or individuals that could relate to cope with the pain. In a very emotional statement Samantha states, “At one point, my depression got so bad, I considered killing myself. I thought that was the only way to get rid of the unbearable pain I was feeling” (Gerson and Lundsten 72). Practically, society effectively managed to damage Samantha’s individuality in the most intimate manner; society almost cost her life. By not fully accepting, society succeeded in reducing her own gender perspective—almost withering all she kept dear to herself. By my own account, I believe that acceptance comes though having the desire and courage to understand and appreciate the seemingly darkest of matter that lies within a person’s