Wednesday, April 20.
Dear Diary.
Today has been a bittersweet day, because I have a confusion of happy and sad thoughts even though it has made me strange. In fact, I'm sad about the direction my life is taking. That's because, today, I received the news that I was approved iiT, my classification was one of the best, which made me very happy. However, I soon received the news that I could not start the course in IIT, which ended all my happiness, left me distressed and aimless. That's because my father said that we don't have enough economic conditions to pay the fees that the course requires.
Although I am sad, I know that I cannot change that and I need to compose myself and strive to change this situation and be able to project my dreams again.
The statement which best explains the meaning of the excerpt from Betty Friedan's "The Problem That Has No Name" is the following one:
Women no longer have to die in childbirth or do hard housework thanks to twentieth-century advances.
The author mentions science and labor-saving appliances as the twentieth-century advances that would free women from the dangers of childbirth and the illnesses of their grandmothers (the first) and also from drudgery (the latter).
We must rule out the other alternatives because:
- It's not that women's grandmothers gave them diseases; it's just that science hadn't evolved to the point of being able to find a cure for some minor diseases before the advances of twentieth-century advances.
- The author says nothing about women not <em>enjoying</em> childbirth; she only mentions the dangers of it.
- The author does not mention "doctors". In fact, she mentions "science" and "labor-saving appliances". Even if we regard doctors as professionals who prescribe medication (invented by science), the last alternative says nothing about labor-saving appliances.
