How Men Treat Women and Children in The Collector of Treasure by Bessie Head

She can provide food and clothing to her children and prove that you can pay tuition fees from small income earned for sewing and weaving work for other people in the village. On the other hand, her neighbor, Kenarepe's husband, Paul is completely different from Gareesego. They are living a happy married life and a good life, and Kenalepe tells her friends in great detail. Paul is the second type of person. Finding a person like Paul, Dikeledi has a spectacular experience yet.

Bessie Head was born and raised in South Africa. She is the author of "Jumbo Collector". Many of the points she describes in the story are male repressional attitudes towards women and children, and how society can abandon certain women based on what can and can not happen in life It is about. In this story, "Jumbo collector", a powerful and flexible character, Dikeledi marries a man named erotic Garesego. Garesego thinks everything must be related to sex. He did not take on the responsibility as a man. The head explained him as a woman like a dog, a man who has sex with a man who wants a canal. In the four years they came together, Garesego pregnant Dikeledi three times and left her. He did not leave to go to another village, he did not take care of his son who lived in the same village and helped bring him to the world. On the contrary, Paul is completely different from Gareesego.

In Africa, Bessie Head's "treasure collector" unleashed the power relationship between men and women complicatedly. Female Dikeledi was indicted as killing her husband. My husband left her and her son to live with another lady. Dikeledi depicts the role of women in African culture. When Di Clyde married her husband, he slept with many other women. This story shows that men can sleep with the women they want but these women should be true to their husbands. Divorce is not a choice of these women. Diceledi endured her marriage with Garesego until her friend, Kenarepe, realized that he was making a much better marriage. She no longer sees men as "sexually crazy dogs (head 29)." As her eyes were opened, she can no longer endure the abuse of Gariesgo, she casts him down; she thinks that she is willing to imprison for her actions. For her this is release rather than confinement.