Llorona

During a journey a person will come across a crisis or it will be an escape from a struggle or an external conflict. In the two short stories, “A Good Man Is Hard To Find” by Flannery O’Connor and “Women Hollering Creek” by Sandra Cisneros, the protagonists are faced with similar crisis of limitations. On the contrary, “The Swimmer” by John Cheever describes the protagonist to be someone that has no limitations, which led him to abuse his freedom. Although these three tales show differences they

When you think of the word monster you think of the tv shows, stories and movie versions. You see on movies that monsters are like ghosts, vampires, werewolf’s, killers, and aliens. Maybe not aliens people say they don’t fall in the category of monsters but people are scared of them. Not all of them are monsters. Some monsters look evil, but are really like a big soft teddy bear. For example, on True Blood, Bill’s vampire daughter Jessica is not so bad. She marries her human boyfriend Hoyt and cares

Cleafilas becomes very depressed so she decides to sit with her daughter by the creek. She constantly asks herself how someone can drive a woman so crazy. The author relates her experience to the story of La Llorona. La Llarona is a story about a woman named Maria who happens to fall in love with a man and they have a daughter and two sons. Once the relationship goes on the man loses his feelings for his wife. After finding out that her husband isn’t in love

The concepts of U.S- Mexican border, and boarders in general, is the main focus of author Gloria Anzalúda in her publication “Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza.” In some ways, this book is an autobiography that is written in a stream of consciousness with intertextual poems, songs, and stories. By using such techniques, Anzalúda is able to stress different aspects of living in a ‘borderland’ and also how the role expected of women is extensive and interconnected with the Catholic Church and

In her short story, Free Women, Alma Luz Villanueva demonstrates how there may not always be solidarity between people of the same race through the interactions of Chicana scholarly women, and Chicano/a hotel workers. In her story, Villanueva depicts four scholarly Chicana women who go to Mexico for work/pleasure and details their interactions with the staff at their hotel. The women are lounging by the pool, ordering drinks and chatting amongst themselves while they comment on the “those macho hunks

Family tales are a great way to pass the time in my family. Every time were at a family gathering my mother will always bring up some child hood memories of the family. Like the time when I was three years old I was basically toothless but only had my k-9 teeth. So, my cousins who were all between the ages 5-6 got together and told my mom that they should kill me because, he has fangs just like a vampire, and they were scared if I woke up in the middle of the night and suck there blood out. Another

The playwrights we discussed after Tennessee Williams have adapted disparate elements of postmodernism to undermine the modernist assumptions undergirding O’Neill’s, Glaspell’s, Wilder’s, Miller’s and Williams’ plays. I will use Fences, The Hungry Woman, Topdog/Underdog, Glengarry Glen Ross, Six Degrees of Separation, and The Heidi Chronicles to support my claim. To start off, I will come up with working definitions of modernism and post-modernism. Modernism is a movement in culture that seeks to

“The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end” — Neal Shusterman. Mistreatment, the agony it causes, and its resultant mental instability, most of which are inevitable in literature, can cause tragedy and destruction but also freedom and liberty. It takes a lot of suffering to find healing and get out of toxic mindsets and relationships. Some people never find the life they deserve and end up living a miserable life. Despite William Shakespeare's famous

Chicana Motherhood: How Mothers Teach Us the Art of Self-love and Influence Our Identity Introduction In the beginning, there were mothers. Like goddesses they create life, nurturing their offspring into adulthood and beyond. Through wisdom, culture, and tradition they educate their young on the wonders of life, gracing us with the opportunity to follow in their footsteps to become mothers ourselves. Through the study of Chicana feminism, it becomes apparent how motherhood is a recurring theme throughout

A gloomy night sky surrounded the flashing lights of blue and red. The moon, usually full and bright, appeared to be as lifeless and pale as the victim being pulled into the ambulance. As I got closer, I noticed the body bag. A child’s body bag. Even the most apathetic officers were filled with sorrow. I stared out into the murderous lake while the ambulance pulled away. To think that these calm waters were the raging killer is unethical. There had to be someone involved in the killing of this innocent