![]() ![]() ![]() This theme, feminism, is also developed through the exploration of the characters of the mother and father and how they interact with each other, with their children and with the environment. What do you find important about the relationship with the brothers? Does the narrator see a difference between herself and her brothers? Do her brothers see a difference between themselves and their sister(s)? There is a younger sister in the book other than the narrator. ![]() However, the narrator goes through most of the stages of development in this book mainly with her two brothers. The theme of feminism in TASTING THE SKY is inherent in the fact that the narrator is a girl living in a world where girls and boys have different social expectations, roles in the family, strengths, weaknesses, dreams and hopes, cultural scripts, limitations, gender stereotypes, spoken or unspoken history of gender, social support systems in the family and outside of the family, different challenges, and distinct methods in which to negotiate the world. ![]()
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