Throughout chapters 20-27 there was a significant moment that really stood up to me. This significant moment reminded me of the role women played during the 1860s.  The moment that stood up to me was when Tante Atie, was talking about the role of women and how each of the ten fingers on her hands represented something for women. Each individual finger represented “Mothering, boiling, loving, baking, nursing, frying, healing, washing, ironing, and scrubbing.” It’s very oppressive because women only appear to be objects who were designed to only serve men.  Back in the day where women weren’t treated equally as men they had no control. Women had no rights at all the men made all the decisions and the women had to obey them.