A Letter to God : A Reply To Lencho

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to native farmers and laborers during the said period.
Before analyzing the text with the deconstruction lens, let us note first the main ideas of deconstruction. The following characteristics (in bold typeface) of deconstruction are taken from Dr. Ahmad Satam Hamad Al-Jumaily's article on Deconstructing Robert Frost's The Road Less Traveled.

1- Texts produce meanings through the difference upon which the meaning inside them is generated. The many linguistic differences (phonological, semantic, syntactical, and structural levels) by which a text could be interpreted make up the varying meanings that may surface and at the same time oppose or corroborate one another.

2- There is no one particular meaning for the text. Since many interpretations are derivable because of the language aspects of the text, there is no one absolute explanation that can be exacted for the material.

3- Whenever a certain meaning is obtained from a text, it soon starts to ...

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be denied of some occupation other than being a housewife, if not an attendant to their children. Here we see not only a description of Lencho's socioeconomic status but also a demarcation between the working poor man and the stay-at-home unlawfully cohabited, and if also unloved, woman. This scenario depicting both poverty and sexism corroborates how third world countries signify a Marxist-feminist way of living. Moreover, as Spivak asserts, a proponent of the Worlding theory, which admonishes the silencing of women in third world countries, the assumed wife of Lencho could represent the treatment of women in third world countries, ignored if at all silent, primarily because of ...

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