A Maiden's Tale Essay

Xquic In the text of a Maidens Tale written by Popol Vuh he focuses on a girl whose is growing up, she is the daughter of one of the lords in this world. The text talks about a girl and how she was tempted to make a decision, and the consequences about her decision. The text mentions an underworld and an upper world. The text explains that Xquic is part of the underworld and how at the end she becomes part of the upper world. The story of a maiden’s tale talks about how hard it is to be a girl, but it goes much deeper explaining how life is and how each action has a consequence.
About life- Xquic is the daughter of an underworld lord. Her decisions has make her seem dishonorable for his father. When she faces the temptation on proven to fruit of a tree, this is a unique tree its fruit are skulls, there is a snake whose advising her on wheter is good or not to pick a fruit of this tree, …show more content…
After a period of time xqui’s father realized that her daughter was pregnant. At the time it was disanorable for a girl to be pregnant being single. His father thought of her as a prostitute. Before formally accusing her of being so, he decided to go over the lords for and advice. Their advice was to ask her who was the father of her children and if she laid he had to kill her for being dishonorable. When he came back and ask his daughter who was the father of her children and when she told him about the snake and what she called a miracle. His father did not believe her and send two owls to kill her. This part of the story represents the value of having an honorable daughter on those times, it also represent how the miscommunication and misunderstanding can lead people to take the wrong decisions, it also makes reference and how easy is for people to judge one another, sometimes not believing on what the other person says, leading to a misunderstanding that it can end up in a