"A feminist writer tries to represent women in a positive way. A Feminist is a person who believes in the principle that women should have the same rights and opportunities as men." In what ways do you think this is true of Bessie Head in the story " The Collector of Treasures"?

The person who is in charge in the prison is a woman. ‘The wardress walked up to this door,

banged on it loudly and called out’ (p. 2). Women also can do hard work

(Dikeledi) ‘Whenever my friends wanted to thatch

their huts, I was there. They would never do it without me’ (p. 3).

Women can do things that beyond men’s expectation if they are pushed and forced to do so “‘I have killed him,’ she said, waving her

hand in the air with a gesture that said-well that’s that.” (p. 12).

Men also can perform the work that normally are perform by women ‘Two male prisoners appeared at the gate

with breakfast. The men handed each woman a plate of porridge and a mug of black tea’ (p. 2).

Women’s survival She raises her children on her own.

1). Women should have the same rights as men;‘The ancestors made so many errors and one of the most bitter-making things was that they relegated to men a superior position in the tribe, while women were regarded, in congenital sense, as being an inferior form of human life. To this day, women still suffered from all the calamities that befall an inferior form of human life’.

2). Women should have equal opportunity to education and the freedom to choose;‘Garasego said at that time that he’d rather be married to my sort than the educated kind because those women were stubborn and wanted to lay down the rules for men’.

3). Women deserve to be treated gently;‘We are also here to make love and enjoy it’ (kenalepe),“Oh, I never really cared for it.”….”When you experience the worst of it, it just puts you off altogether” (Dikeledi).