Leslie Silko Yellow Woman Summary

What is beauty? In today's society beauty for women is considered to be 5'5 thin but not too thin; long hair, full lips, perfectly groomed eyebrows, and a large chest, etc... In the essay Yellow Woman by Leslie Silko, she remembers how her great-grandmother how she was considered to be beautiful even though she didn't fit into the mold that the "outside world" had for what is beautiful. Beauty was considered to be much more than just a pretty face in the old Pueblo time. This essay is a piece of literature that every women should read to let them know what true beauty really is not just what the size 0 supermodel is being paid to say what is beautiful. Silko does an amazing job on uses stories her great-grandmother and aunts would tell her when she was younger. However beauty doesn't only apply to humans but to nature and all living things as well. Silko explains how in the old Pueblo times everything and everyone would live in …show more content…
the white man looked at me and motioned for me to step out of the picture.." Here when Silko was in the first grade the kids were use to posing for pictures for the white tourist that would be traveling down Route 66. One day during lunch time the kids gathered to take another picture however this time a young Silko is asked to step aside because she didn't fit in with the other kids. At the is young age she learned what the "outside world" thought was beautiful, if she wasn't mixed race she wouldn't be asked to stand aside. In the Pueblo culture everyone is beautiful because "the Mother Creator made all of us- all colors and all sizes...thus the old folks used to tell us kids not to disturb the earth..all things were created already in harmony..." This is just one example of how Silko uses flashbacks to explain how in the times when her great grandmother and aunts were growing up. The plants were in harmony with the animals the animals were in harmony with the