Standing_Up_For_Their_Rights

Standing Up For Their Rights Standing Up for Their Rights Every generation has its issues whether it be war, politics or civil interests. As a society we tend to express our emotions and thoughts towards these issues in literature. Susan Glaspell’s “Trifles”, and Maya Angelou’s “Graduation in Stamps” are two works that express the author’s feelings to a particular issue. Published in 1969 “Graduation in Stamps” spoke out against prejudice and fought for equality for the African American community. “Trifles” which was published in 1916 supported women’s rights. Both pieces of literature focused on a particular topic and expressed the opinions of the corresponding author. Each work had to be written to support the time period and situation of the author. Mrs. Angelou was much more outspoken than Mrs. Glaspell because of the general protection given to her by the Bill of Rights, and because she was probably wasn’t the highest on the hit list of anti-black groups. She also didn’t have to be careful because she didn’t stand to hurt her family, like Mrs. Glaspell did. Maya Angelou’s entire family was black, so her involvement in civil rights served to benefit all of them. On the other hand, angelou, rights, mrs, literature, glaspell, family, trifles, represent, play, out, works, using, susan, stamps, poems, men, maya, issues, groups, graduation, expressed, different, community, both, black, because, about, york, writing, women, while, took, tone, things, tend