The female protagonist and Lumnay both have lost male figures whom they loved greatly but neither of them ever reach a state of acceptance. Lumnay, from Wedding dance, as much as she would love to interrupt the wedding ceremony, ignores those feelings and instead begins the long hike up to her parents house. The gangsa,“seemed to call far to her, to speak to her in the language of unspeaking love. She felt the pull of their gratitude for her sacrifice”(72). Awiyao left Lumnay because she was not able to bear the children he wanted so he needed to get remarried in order to fulfill his family requirements. When the passage says “sacrifice” they are talking about how she gave up her great life with her tribe, so her husband could live the life he wanted and have the children he always desired. It was not
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This passage also implies that Lumnay knows Awiyao and her still share a special bond but their love for each other must remain unspoken. Lumnay also has a hard time reaching a state of acceptance because she admits she, “would tell Awiyao to come back to her. He surely would relent. Was not their love as strong as the river”(71)? She believes with all of her heart that she can make the relationship work. In Children of the Sea, the female narrator does not want to admit to herself that her loved one, who is somewhere far away, is dead. She has not reached a state of acceptance yet and we know this because she early on in the story manman tells her, “butterflies can bring news. The bright ones bring happy news and the black ones warn us of death”(11). Throughout the story, butterflies come up many of times but in her last letter to her protagonist one, she writes, “there it was, the black butterfly floating around us. I began to run and run so it wouldn’t land on me, but it had already carried the news”(23). Since the black butterflies symbolize death and she is running from the black butterflies, she does not want to accept that her the one she loved is
This passage also implies that Lumnay knows Awiyao and her still share a special bond but their love for each other must remain unspoken. Lumnay also has a hard time reaching a state of acceptance because she admits she, “would tell Awiyao to come back to her. He surely would relent. Was not their love as strong as the river”(71)? She believes with all of her heart that she can make the relationship work. In Children of the Sea, the female narrator does not want to admit to herself that her loved one, who is somewhere far away, is dead. She has not reached a state of acceptance yet and we know this because she early on in the story manman tells her, “butterflies can bring news. The bright ones bring happy news and the black ones warn us of death”(11). Throughout the story, butterflies come up many of times but in her last letter to her protagonist one, she writes, “there it was, the black butterfly floating around us. I began to run and run so it wouldn’t land on me, but it had already carried the news”(23). Since the black butterflies symbolize death and she is running from the black butterflies, she does not want to accept that her the one she loved is