Seven Daughters & Seven Sons and Mulan

Seven Daughters and Seven Sons
&
Mulan

Big Understanding:
Prescribed gender roles and restrictions can limit individual potential.

Essential Questions:
1. Why do many religions/belief systems have clearly defined gender roles?
Many religions/ beliefs systems have clearly defined gender roles because men were thought to be more important than women because they could get educated then but women couldn't. Women were just thought to bried babies, cook and clean for their husbands.

2. When, if ever, is it appropriate that someone defy gender roles?
Yes it s appropriate, because say that a husband became ill and he wasn't well enough to get out of the house and earn his living for his family, then the wife could go out and make the money for her family instead of the husband.

Novel/Movie Connection:
1. What are the cultural attitudes toward marriage in the novel, Seven Daughters and Seven Sons, and the movie, Mulan?
The cultural attitudes towards marriage in the novel, Seven Daughters & Seven Sons, and the movie, Mulan, is that the movie and the novel have basically the same idea of what marriage was like in the olden days. like how the women and the men are different (on question #1). Also Men were like the head of the family, they made all the decisions and were basically incharge of his family.

2. How is education for girls treated in the novel as well as the movie?
Girls weren't allowed to be educated in the novel as also in the film. Boys were the ones that were. Girls were just expected to be housewives and nothing else.