FREE ESSAY ON NORMA REA

NORMA REA

Norma Rae was seen in many different ways by people. In the beginning Norma's qualities
were different than those at the end. Norma Rae changes and it is for the better.
One of Norma's bad qualities is that she is dependent on men. As for seen with George. He
treats he like a hoe and, gives her no respect. He is very abusive towards her, like when
they were in the hotel room and he slapped her across the face. Her father treats her as
a little girl. He is always in her business, he is always wanting to know where she is
going, when she is coming home and who she is seeing. Norma has some good qualities; she
is a very hard worker. She works at a textile factory for many hours and then she goes
home and cleans and takes care of the house. She is also a very outspoken women. If she
doesn't like someone or something they say, she lets them know how she feels about it.
Her boss is a major jerk. He doesn't care about their health or feelings. To give an
example, when her and mother went to him because her mother couldn't hear, he was not
interested, and he just brushed them off. Norma is a strong woman, but people just take
advantage of her.
Changes. Norma Rae definitely went through many changes. Ruben I think was her first
change. Ruben was the young man from the union. I think she made her first change when he
told her your too smart for what's happing to you. I believe this is when she gave her
self more respect. Ruben got her to also join the union. She than starts getting relay
involved in it and during all this she meets a man named sonny. Sonny and her become very
close and fall in love and end up marring. She persuades her other co-workers to also
join the union. One day her father dies. This was a major change in Normas life. She
loved her father dearly. If things couldn't get better, she is fired from her job. Norma
was outraged by this, and caused a scene. She stood on a machine and held up a sign that
read union. Following, where her co-workers, they all shut down their machines and quite
working. She was then put in jail for this. This was a total embarrassment to her and her
family. She was very angry at herself. She called Ruben to come bail her out. The first
thing she did when she got home was wake up her kids. She knew there was going to be
negative talk about her in the town. She sat down with her children and told them who
their real fathers where. She did not want them to find out by people gossiping. One
final change came. The union won. They had did it, they won. Everyone was so happy they
were finally going to have good, decent working conditions.
Norma's qualities have had such a turn around. She is so much stronger. She is a very
faithful woman; like she had many opportunities to cheat on Sonny with Ruben, but she
never did. She was very confident, as she believed in Ruben and the union. She had so
much determination to get the union in the factory. She had tremendous courage to just
put her whole life on the line and go along with the union. I think this whole thing made
her such an independent woman; and made her such a better person.
My opinion of the movie was it was a great movie. It made me thank there is a union, so I
can have good, fair working conditions. This movie was very true, and that is what really
happened. I love Norma, I think she is such a strong person. I know she made some bad
choices, but everyone does. I think she is an all around good person, and she helped
change many lives. Norma Rae is a hard working woman.