As a young woman in today’s society, I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. Despite its lack of interesting portrayal, the content of the book was captivating. Abigail Adams is an inspiration to me after reading this novel. By no means was she a perfect person, however she very clearly did the best she could as a person in her time. This book showed me two important things about myself, the fact that I am, in a sense, not all that effective in society and that I am prone, to take advantage of the education afforded to me. I can legally vote, and plan to in November, but I’d be lying if I said I was keeping up with the election. I voted in the primary for my hometown and regret doing so because I only truly understood one, maybe two, of the …show more content…
Women, for the most part, could not read or write which is unfathomable to me because it has always been expected of me. One key thing I would like to recognize is that I truly don’t understand how men interacted within relationships or families if the women were uneducated, if I was a man at that time I would consistently feel as though I was communicating with small children. In today’s society, once again for the most part, the only people who cannot read and write are children. Putting that into prospective and registering that women must have, at least in a sense, been treated like children helped me to see that I do not pay as much regard to how important my education really is. It has always been a way of life around me and I’ve known since relatively early on that I wanted to attend a university just like most people in today’s time, however it’s hard for me to process that not only has this not always been important, but it hasn’t always even been an option. I can slack off, skip class, procrastinate, ignore tutoring, etc. all things I try very hard not to do, however all things that I have done. This really bothered me after reading this book because I keep thinking about how treasured education would have been to someone like Abigail Adams, and I wonder if she would be making mediocre grades because of a lack of