La Llorona

Women writers have become successful with their works by going beyond social norm standards. They have been critiqued because of their gender roles and are expected to not disobey a man, yet they have proven to not let that be a barrier towards their goals and success. Both Sandra Cisneros and Helena Maria Viramontes use various narrative strategies like the Control and Exercise of Chicana Sexuality, Bildungsroman Novel, and the Reinterpretation of Myths to break with traditional stereotypes of…

For as long as people have communicated, they’ve written and listened to horror stories. Whether it’s the old Mexican folktale of “La Llorona,” or even Stephen King’s “IT,” horrifying stories have been one of the most successful genres of all time. Why? The characters within these works often transform into better people by the end of the story, grasping the need for change in all those who watch it. Characters often face horror throughout their development in a narrative. These experiences…

Death Rituals and Day of the Dead in Modern Mexico Día de Los Muertos, or Day of the Dead is a popular Hispanic holiday that is often associated with Mexico. Participants of this holiday celebrate it for more than two days, they are known for their particular decorations on tombstones, festive parties, and sugar skulls. Day of the Dead started off as a couple of Catholic holidays, but has then become something that makes the holiday specially engrained into the Mexican Culture. From where the…

Bless me Ultima is a book that talks about the search for religious footing, family obligations, friendships, malice and revenge. The title speaks religious volumes, as though the persona seeks the favor of the one they are addressing. Ultima is a name with Spanish connotations. The author of the book is Rudolfo Anaya. He was born in New México, whose culture influenced much of his older life. His family moved to Albuquerque, where he attended high school. He got a Bachelor of Arts degree in…

LAP #2 Dreaming is an unknown phenomenon where illusions are materialized from incidents, beliefs, emotions, sensations and ideas. The deep rooted emotions and experiences surface from the soul in the rem of sleep. These disambiguations are usually seen as a bridge between an absolute reality and a distorted fabrication of the mind, however dreams have been perceived as a way of communication between a spiritual being and its subject in the unknown realm of mind. Sometimes these illusions may…

In a radical kind she calls autohistoria, which offers an inventive approach to compose history, Gloria Anzaldua presents a nonlinear history of both the geological and mental scenes of Borderlands. Anzaldua's autohistoria is a class of blended media—individual story, testimonio, true records, cuento, and verse—that disproves stasis pretty much as the Borderlands from which Anzaldua comes. As indicated by Anzaldua, the Fringe is a "third nation" whose history as been told on Anglocentric terms,…

important role in the Spanish conquest of the Aztec empire. La Malinche served as interpreter, advisor, and intermediary lover of Hernan Cortés. In 1519, he was one of the twenty slave women given as a tribute to the Spaniards by the Indians of Tabasco, becoming mistress of Cortes and giving birth to her first son, Martin, who is considered one of the first mestizos (people with mixed European and indigenous) descent. I think in the actually, La Malinche is seen in many respects as the…

When she mentions the myth about La Llorona, they hear a lady crying and it gets dark and in the end she does not want to be with him: ‘ “Bag lady”, he said. “Go on take a hit.” ”She was crying, “ Maria said…”Did you ever hear the story of La Llarona? “ Maria asked “Yeah, the scary woman who cries at night?”…Maria looked at him at he dark…”Go on” Frankie whispered in the dark…Frankie smiled in the dark’ She mentions the myth about La Llorana, because she does not want to end up like…

The novel “So Far from God” is an account of a Chicano family. Sofi, her spouse Domingo together with their four girls – Esperanza, Fe, Caridad, and Loca live in the little town of Tome, New Mexico (Castillo, 1993). The story concentrates on the battles of Sofi, the demise of her little girls and the issues of their town. The novel accounts how this family, its neighbors, and their group go up against and beat the problems of prejudice, destitution, abuse, natural contamination, and war. The…

Aztec, had been a voice of reason, a mediator between the two empires and someone who would lessen the fall of Tenochtitlan. There had even been “some popular traditions some of them extant to the present, which associate La Malinche with the Virgin and with the mythical Llorona” (Franco 74). This means that she was seen as something that was perhaps even good since she was once connected to two important women of both cultures, which makes sense since she is known for producing one of the first…