March Monthly Connection

The issue presented in A Room of One's Own is the issue of women and their lack of and need of money. Woolf writes of women's desperation for money. She writes of this point in relation to women's education and women's authoring of books. Woolf proposes that women need money in order to compose worthwhile works of literature. She also touches on the plight of women's colleges and their lack of money. Men's colleges survive on endowments from alumni. However, women have no alumni as very few women have attended college before the generation that Woolf speaks of. This means that there are no generous endowments from alumni, instead the women have to fundraise and make their own money to support their college.

I don't think that this issue is pertinent to today's society. Women no longer have to fight for money for their colleges. For one thing, there are very few women's colleges left in the country and for another thing, there are now women alumni to give endowments. For the other issue with women and money concerning women authors and their need of money, this is again not pertinent because women can make their livings in other ways fairly feasibly which would give them the capital to write their own literature.

This situation is loosely relatable to me because I live in the present-day where women are coming to equality with men. Most of the time, the issues that affect men also affect women as well. There are very few sex-exclusive problems in the world anymore. True, the sexes react differently and each issue affects the sexes differently, however, each issue affects both sexes.

In my opinion, A Room of One's Own proved its point about women and literature, but it was excessive in the examples and metaphors that it used to the point where the book was an example of overkill. It is also consistent with my opinion that none of the issues that Woolf presented concerning women and money are pertinent to today's society.

February Monthly Connection

Obviously, it is in my opinion that warfare and all components of warfare are not beneficial to any society that it affects. As shown in A Thousand Splendid Suns warfare not only affects those that are involved in the war, but those at home too. Whether it be by Fariba's loss of her two beloved sons and the upsetting of her life or by Laila's loss of her parents by the actual bombshells of war, war is devastating.

For example, I have a family friend that shot a mother and child during the war in Iraq, and now he has numerous emotional problems. He couldn't look at his own family because he could only see the family that he had killed. This is only one such example of how war affects people very heavily.

I personally believe that war is necessary. It is necessary to solve some conflicts and fix some problems. There are some aspects of war that are beneficial to society, obviously the problem-solving is one of those aspects. However, for the individual members of a society, war is a disturbance and a very hard thing to deal with. It is also very damaging to the infrastructure of the area that the war is being fought in. Because of this, I disagree on one plane with war, but since it is necessary to solving some problems, my stance on it is that it is a necessary evil.

January Monthly Connection

The issue that was presented in The Awakening was the fact that women who have everything are generally not content with their lives. Edna had everything that she could ever want, her husband gave her everything, yet she was not happy with her life. Léonce tried so hard to make Edna happy, but she was never content or pleased with his efforts.



For example, my cousin works for this family where the one daughter-in-law married into the family for the money. Before she got married, she was humble but not very content on a materialistic level. However, after the vows were said, she was given everything she wanted and was even satisfied on the topics of love and children, but for some reason she still yearned for more. Her excessive yearning was unreasonable and an excellent case of the state of discontent that plagues women of this kind.


These women, in my opinion, are spoiled and self-centered. They cannot see that what they have is good and be happy with that. They are always looking for more. I do not understand why rich women are never satisfied with what they are in possession of. They are constantly looking for more, yearning for more and I believe that this is wrong.

However, I do not believe that this is the case for all women. I do believe that there are women out there who are very happy and content with what they have in life, even though they have so much less than those women who are discontent with their lives. These women are not the women that pertain to the issue of the state of discontent that upper class women share, so I do not have a problem with them.

Also, I do not think that all upper-class women are upppity or in the state of discontent displayed in The Awakening. There are many upper-class women, some of whom I have met and enjoyed their company, that are not uppity or in a state of constant yearning at all. Therefore, these women do not fit this issue either. Their lives are good, they know it, and they are in a constant state of contentedness with their lives.