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The Red Tent Literary Analysis

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Mothers play the parts of instructor, nurturer, guardian, and friend in The Red Tent. The males in the book have a tiny to no influence on the lives of the women, other than to have families, and the comfort of wives. Dinah develops in the insignificant culture of her mothers, being educated on their melodies and tales to learn everyday lessons in her existence. The women’s once a month reawakening in the red tent, to the ongoing skirmishes of childbearing and medicinal ways. Dinah does not tell her tale for years; she does not know that healing can only start when she looks her misfortune head on. The relief she feels is wonderful, and as time keeps going, she expresses her story repeatedly. While it takes her 20 years, she gradually
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