Gender Roles Franklin vs King

Having read Franklin first, I feel as though a male's coming of age in the South has various tasks set at hand depending on where in the South you are speaking of. He makes it a point how growing up in the rural area of Arkansas is very different than growing up with Yankees and westerners. A southern male is critiqued based off of their skill to kill. Which as we saw from Franklin, it was not an easy task at hand for him. He did not enjoy the early morning rises for a hunt, nor the actual killing of the animal. Instead he enjoyed the imaginative things as his father clearly indicated; action figures. But to Franklin that was all just something he had to cover up and deal with on his own in order to maintain his social status as a southern male. On the other hand we have King, who gives us the break down for how a southern woman should be. Right away in my opinion straight off the bat, I am blown away. King directly has me comprehending that woman are these molds commanded by "God" to be created. Right away there is just a overwhelming obligation as a southern woman, like they are made to be perfect. However King does stray away from this once the story unveils the family background. It was an interesting take on how King could portray how much it meant to know that there is an ideal mold to be a proper southern woman, but in the end it does not necessarily dictate who you are, as expressed through the behavior of King's mother. Both Franklin and King understood the pressure in which society enforces on gender roles. Where one is still deciding the proper path for her self, the other maintained the work needed to, in order to conform to the traditions in which becoming a man comes with in the South.