In Sojourner Truth’s speech, “Ain’t I a Women,” read by Alice Walker, Sojourner cited three main reasons why women should be treated equally. The first reason, as quoted from the speech, “Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me!” The second reason, “I would work as much and eat as much as a man – when I could get it – and bear the lash as well!” The third reason, I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother’s grief, none but Jesus heard me!” With all these three citied from Sojourner’s speech, it brings a rhetorical question to each statement made and listed. Initially, through the speech, the audience responded truthfully as an audience you have to respect what is being voiced and listen to every word. Hence, through the beginning the audience where quite, being respectful as Alice Walker read Sojourner Truth’s speech. However, that quietness didn’t last long because as the…show more content… Not that we can’t be in a men’s world because we have stepped up our games of being self-worthy enough to compete and enlist ourselves in this men’s world. Thus, we have the same amount of strength as a man can. Though it is the truth, we as a woman has forgotten what truly is beautiful. We have evolved over the impression of being this type of beauty is what truly is beautiful, but if you were the opposite you are not considered beautiful enough. It is depressing to know that we have forgotten what it truly means to be treated equally in the competition of beauty. Either you are beautiful or you’re not because there’s a set scale placed in defining what you should look like to be considered beautiful. This is what I will tell Sojourner Truth because ain’t I a woman,
