ned in that novel. It seems this type of ruling is in place around the narrator at this time.The family of the narrator would go on to have their own lives. When the narrator prepares for going to the University, he talks about his sisters already married. Typical for the girls to get married and run a family. That was the females job here. Mamma was always interested in getting her daughters into marriage.Dont be choosy. It will be too late then. There is nothing like having a men of your own The idea of the female of the family getting out, having a man, and having kids just was the idea. Never any idea of a career or higher level education was consider throughout the novel for these girls.As for the narrator, he does go on to higher education. There is another case of discrimination in the hands of the government. The narrator whom did have very respectable grades in the local systems applies to the local university. He has aspirations to go into Medicine. However, the government recommends him to go into Agriculture, [not what we would call higher education] even though the narrator had never left the city except to go to a national park on a field trip. This is an attempt for the government to keep the Indian class down. Take the ones who show promise and bright futures and use your governmental power to keep them down. Agriculture is a low level form of making a living, especially compared to medicine. This was more example of the belligerents discrimination that occurred in this area at this time.The narrators mother finally allows him to go to the States and into the California Institute of Technology. Both a financial and emotion risk is taken by mother. She has to come up with a thousand shillings for him to go and she is losing a son to a distant place. Her faith in her son gives hope to not just the family, but also the reader. The decision was pivotal to the life of the narrator. If this opportunity were...
