Comparative Essay Comparing Two Films

In their respective films, both Fausta and Maria are reliant on working to support themselves and their families. They must work with limited options as neither receive the opportunity to pursue formal schooling. Everything they learn is through working in domestic and physical labor sectors together with their families. Fausta works two jobs in La Teta Asustada. In her first job, she works as part of the waiting staff for her family’s wedding catering service. The family works together to provide other Peruvian families with food, entertainment, and venue services so they can have the wedding most close to their dreams. Throughout the film, Fausta’s family observes from the background the clients’ happy absurdism as they celebrate their days. Fausta and her family never share that sense of careless halcyon as they must dutifully work to make ends meet with limited luxuries. They are just dream granters who cannot grant their own.
Fausta’s second job is working as a domestic servant in a rich, upper-class household. Her overseer is a professional musician who constantly searches for inspiration in her home. Fausta goes above and beyond her typical duties as she becomes an emotional support system for the woman …show more content…
They grow and harvest with others in order to maintain the livelihood of the village. They are in a remote area at the base of a volcano, making it more difficult to seek other laboral means. Maria and her mother are out in the fields everyday cultivating coffee, an important export from Guatemala. They tend to crops carefully and rid it of pests. Seeing Maria dutifully work in a monotonous and tedious job gives us a transparent sense of her maturity and growth at her age. She even prepares to fight off snakes from damaging the plantation or preventing other people from working there. Working in this natural element helps Maria connect with her Mayan roots to earth and add to her