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1. Sample response to PBQ on Emily of Emerald Hill

1(i) I sympathise with Emily as she is discriminated as a women by society. This is seen in the text which says that “I learned that a women
is nothing in this world that men have made, except in the role that men deman d of her” shows that Emily evaluates the struggles she
faced as a women in a patriarchal community. A women’s is worth is determined by how useful she is to men. It also suggest that as a
women, you are expected to compromise to the man’s needs and have to do what the man says. This is unfair to the women as it shows
that she does not have a say in anything. Therefore, I sympathise with Emily.
Another reason why I sympathise with Emily is because of her past. When Emily “gently puts the coat away as though putting a hurt child
to rest”, it shows that Emily was finally letting go of her past. The coat was a symbol of Emily’s childhood and the fact that it was like
“putting a hurt child to rest”, it shows that Emily’s past really affected her because a “a hurt child” means that the child that is so innocent
has already been emotionally scarred and the child is injured from the emotional pain that they have to go through at such a young age. It
must have been extremely tramatic childhood as only now, when Emily is an adult, that she is letting go. Therefore, I sympathise with her
because of her past.
I also sympathise with Emily because of the way other people treated her when she was young. In the text it gives us, the readers a little bit
of inside about her childhood. Emily had “lived with one relative or another, doing their housework and kitchen work, and they would say to
me: ‘We took you out of the gutter, when your mother threw you away’. From when I was ten, I lived like that for four years, until they
sent for me to be married to a man twice my age.” Shows that Emily’s childhood was filled with misery and lack of stability. When her
relatives said “we took you out of the gutter, when your mother threw you away” was said to make Emily feel like a burden and that she
was unloved and a burden. When she was only ten years old, Emily was disposed of passive to marry like she’s an object of exchange.
Therefore, I sympathise with Emily.