La Llorona

Pam Munoz Ryan’s Esperanza Rising is a brilliant novel for young readers about the values of the Latino culture. It engulfs the Latino culture to explain years of hardship that Latinos has endures. As part of the Latino culture, I enjoyed reading this novel and strongly suggest educators to provide their students with this novel to be more informative about the Latino culture. Esperanza Rising brings awareness to the Mexican Immigration laws in the United States, unification, and tradition. As…

in 2003. Some of her literary works include “Caramelo, My Wicked Wicked Ways, Loose Woman, Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories.” (Cisneros) The book Cisneros is most famous for is her book “The House on Mango Street,” and dedicated this book “A las Mujeres,” “To the Women.” (Cisneros) The House on Mango Street is centered on one of Cisneros main themes, feminism, it’s a story about a young Mexican-American girl named Esperanza Cordero and she is experiencing her coming of age. As well in…

such as “witch” - which can be traced to Mexican folk legends “La llorona” a witch who lives by a river by herself, crying for the loss of her children, and the strong belief in “brujería” or witchcraft – and “macha” which means a female who acts like a man, notions that Cisneros’…

1. How would you describe the humor in Singer's stories? What adjectives would you use? This is a short answer that need not take 6 sentences. The humor in Singer’s stories I would describe as wordplay. As I read Singer’s stories I found many words that were used to amuse a reader. In the story “The Elders of Chelm & Genendel’s Key” the names that have dopey, fool, and donkey aren’t common names, but gives a sort of a chuckle when reading them. The adjectives that I would use for Singer’s…

princess fell in love with a prince. She was falsely told that her beloved had died, leading to her suicide. The prince carried her to the highest ground, where the shapes of their body was carved into the volcanic mountain. Another legend known as “La Llorona”, about a woman whose children drowned in a lake, allowed me to fall into the works of legends. I grew up on poems and novels, lacking in the legends that are greatly known in other countries. Including a story that shocked me about the…

This chapter starts with what culture is. So, what is culture? According to the book, it’s the beliefs, norms, behaviors, and products common to the members of a particular group. Culture is what defines everyone. It creates diversion, different experiences and it makes us all different. Culture can also be expressed through religion, language, stories, poems and music. Culture is then defined even further, it is categorized into, material and nonmaterial culture. Material culture is anything…

Why Suya Sing, a musical anthropology of an Amazonian people, is a book written by Anthony Seeger. Anthony Seeger is a professor, ethnomusicologist, archivist, anthropologist, and record producer. The title “Why Suya Sing” portrays the general idea of all ethnomusicologists, which is to further understand music in its cultural context (“What Is Ethnomusicology?”). Seeger is also the director emeritus of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. The author tackled field research for the book at Mato…