Ten Days a Madwoman by Deborah Noyes is a brilliant story about a woman’s life. The girl’s name is Nellie Bly. Nellie Bly lived in an age where there were a severe gender discrimination happening and a huge problem with the society’s mental illness. The story sets where Nellie is just trying to be a journalist in New York, then she found out that women are not treated well as men, they earn less money, they have less power, and people have a mindset as easy as “women is just a housewife that take care of kids and do house works” only men can do work and earn money. She contributed a lot to the women’s right. One example is She broke the record of a men travelling around in 70 days by using 7 days less to complete the journal. Keep reading to find out more evidence about how the theme grew throughout the b Book.
First, I want to say this book is Fabulous, really encourage people who like history to read this. As you scroll down my notes, please note the main theme and the problem I listed.
This page is about the main problem discussed in the book! Which is Gender Discrimination. I used arrows to show how this problem was developed through the book and how Nellie faced it. The green words are thinking about what Nellie did. Overall, she is a very great full woman which contributed a lot to the whole society.
This page is some evidence supporting what I wrote above, the blue words show what I think and the explanation of what the quotes are talking about.
Here is more evidence of the gender discriminations in the book. When men did something contributive and influential, why could women not do that? According to this quote, Nellie is trying to prove to the world that woman can also be influential. The bottom of the page is the claim I made according to the book.
“Government should take actions to control mental illness and make the society better!”
This book didn’t explain a lot about mental illness, if you don’t read closely, you might not even find out this problem. But mental illness is a very important topic in the time where Nellie was. The quotes down below are some very extreme exerts from the book, it really made me feel shocked when I read through them.
Overall, Thanks for making it all the way through the bottom, this book is really a great book about the life in the 19th century. After reading, I got shocked by how people treat mental illness people and how gender discrimination were a severe problem. To found out more, go read this book out!