The short story Desiree's Child by Chopin presents Desiree's plight in a more racial and male chauvinist society sees her husband, Monsieur Aubigny, reject her rare with cruelty and kills both her baby and herself on realizing the baby is black (Chopin, 1893). The story paints the picture of economic inequalities where Desiree depends on her husband for everything in their baby's upbringing. If the society were fairer to the woman, she would also have an opportunity for work to not entirely depend on her husband's help for providing for the baby. Secondly, racism is a theme that perpetuates violence and violation of fundamental human rights and a potential hindrance to growth. Monsieur Aubigny considers the black race inferior and treats them with undue cruelty; he rejects her spouse and the child on realizing the child is multi-racial only to learn later that it was his lineage that had people of black origin (Shaunt., n.d).
Maia Kobabe’s “Gender Queer: a memoir" presents Maia's story, who does not find it easy to realize and accept her sexuality. Her social life is complicated because she cannot identify correctly with either male or female gender. When Maia takes off her shirt like a boy, she is ridiculed by one of the boys, and the teacher Naomi notices that and intervenes (Kobabe, 2019) . Maia cannot do what she likes, and she does not quite understand why she cannot take off her shirt and cool herself off on a hot day as the fellow learners did! Further, around her seventh grade, Maia is still at a disadvantage since she has something more to worry about: having to wear a tight bra every day to conceal her breasts and even wishes for cancer until a family member suffers from the same when she changes her mind. Therefore, she can't entirely give full attention to her studies like the other learners.
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Thus, the two literature pieces, however different in genre and other literacy styles, present a set of characters who find it challenging to realize the American dream due to pessimistic and indifferent societal perceptions and interpretation of racism, classism, and sexism (Hochschild, 1996 ). A discourse on some of these social problems should be sustained to enable virtues of tolerance of diversity to enable people of different racial, economic, and gender and other minority backgrounds have equal opportunities for growth and realization of the American dream.
References
Chopin, K. (1893). Desiree's Baby.
Hochschild, J. L. (1996). Facing up to the American dream: Race, class, and the soul of the nation (Vol. 51). Princeton University Press.
Maia Kobabe. (2019, May). Gender queer: A memoir . https://redgoldsparkspress.com/projects/6926504
Suzanne Shaunt. (n.d.). YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZPddrEyTOM
