Comparing Leslie Marmon Silko's Yellow Woman And A Beauty Of The Spirit

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In the story “Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit” by Leslie Marmon Silko is about how people are different and what impact this has within different societies. Throughout the story different problems arise all concerning appearance and how people are different and how that should not be a problem. The story is rather short, yet it is formatted in such a way that the author, Leslie Marmon Silko gets her point across in a small amount of text. In the story the author describes spending a lot of time with her grandma and how she tells her stories of her people, The Pueblo. Silko explains how her Grandfather is of white decent and her grandma is pure blooded Pueblo, and unlike other societies of that time, and of our current time, The Pueblo

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