Evie is just an ordinary girl in the 1950's. She has a step-father (who she likes to think of as her father) and she has a mother, both of whom love her very much. But in What I Saw And How I Lied by Judy Blundell Evie turns out to be anything but normal. She gets caught up in a complicated web of lies, some of them started by herself and and she doesn't know what to do. But as a girl, she really shouldn't be doing anything because girls in the 1950's only cooked, cleaned and sewed.
Throughout the book women are portrayed as people who have and need to do anything to please their husbands. During world war 2, it was the job of the women to save a mans place. Not take it, but hold it, like a bookmark. And when the men got back from the war it was their job to make their home as comfy as it could be. No matter what it took. For Evie and her family, that meant not talking about the war and any feelings they had about it had to be kept to themselves. It was her mothers job to cook, clean and sew the family back together. As if the war hadn't happened. Her mother even had to quit her job so men coming back could have a place to work. I think that was extremely unfair.
Women are looked at as weaklings. People who needed someone else to take care of them. Someone to shield them from the wrong in the world. Well I think that women can do that perfectly fine all by themselves. When Evie was born, Evie's mom didn't have a husband, back then it was a sin to do that. But she kept her head held high and she plowed through. And now she has this wonderful husband and a beautiful daughter. What else could she ask for besides a loving family?
Women today are no longer looked at as a lower species, but there is still sexism out there. Some women think that the guy has to ask out the girl and that he has to but her dinner and not the other way around. But I say that it's ridiculous. Any girl who sets her mind to it can take care of herself. I once knew this women who had to take care of two children all by herself. And she did. Now she's a great success and so are her kids. It's easy, people just have to try.
