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Because of the Virgin’s Mexican history, she holds great significance to Mexican Catholics, so it is no surprise why the Virgin remains inherent in Mexican culture, or as literary scholar Debra J. Blake so aptly defined, “Guadalupe equals Mexico.” Both men and women admire the Virgin, but her religious setting provides a context for oppression through the church. NietoGomez explains how the church utilized Guadalupe’s image, "Marianismo, the veneration of the Virgin Mary, became the model of how to make oppression a religious obligation. This is the heritage of the Chicana." The church created a patriarchal role for themselves by weaving the Virgin’s image as a pure mother to model ordinary women’s behavior. By applying this method through the guise of subjugation, the Church rationalized their need to “protect” women in order to maintain their pure, moral status. Paradoxically, feminine virtues expressed by the Virgin as to be employed by women represents many contradictory elements. Debra

Ever since Carmen got to Latin America, her mother made a emphasis on living for the country as oppose to focusing on her own issues. This stunted the pre-pubescent development of Carmen, but the most psychological damage was that, this idea of socialism, confirmed to her that she could not show any weakness. A prime example of this would when Carmen and Ale had their near drowning experience, but did not tell their mother for that was considered showing weakness (insert quotation). Or what about the time she made out with her cousin and the only person she felt compelled to ask for help was her grandmothers maid, in p.74 while Carmen was making out with her cousin everyday she says this about the maid: “I longed to talk to her, to ask her for help in making sense of so much ecstasy and sorrow”. Carmen never felt comfortable talking about vulnerable feelings to her mother, even if the subject was as open as sexuality, in their household vulnerability was considered a weakness. The fact that Carmen wanted to talk to an anonymous maid, says how much shame or guilt she felt about talking these issues with one of her family members. Conversely, the act of taking responsibility for oneself or keeping secrets instilled a habit of independence in Carmen, but at what cost? Her mother showed her how to be independent, but never told about the consequences of deviating from the norms. In Bolivia Carmen was slut shammed for kissing boys and had her neighbors talk bad about her, while her mother never nurtured or told her how to deal with those

Although religion is not the universal opium of the people, it helps many escape from reality. Sister Cecilia wants to become a saint, which seems to be her goal in life

“She wishes she had asked him to explain more of what he meant. But she was impatient…to be done with sewing. With doing everything for three children, alone…” (1125, 3), and “Respect, a chance to build. Her children at last from underneath the detrimental wheel. A chance to be on top” (1124, 2) both reveal the motives behind getting married to this man, despite the religious conflict. She is torn between the pros and cons of this new life. It’s although she is trying to convince herself, but the negative thoughts just keep surfacing.

A reluctant look mixed with hints of nervousness and boredom is projected clear as day on the face of 20-year old college student Gabriella Perpetuo. She attends Miami-Dade College and is currently studying Mass Communications with the intention to begin working in Public Relations. At first glance Perpetuo comes off as nonchalant and a bit detached; more focused on what is going on in her own world, or in this case her cellphone. Underneath that is a young woman who has a passion for education and strong family bonds. She and many other young people in today’s world find it challenging to balance school, work, home life, and social interests. Gabriella is a native of Framingham, MA and has lived there for 16 years before she moved to Miami,

A woman who helped men cheat to their own wife was her hobby. She was a woman who is having fun ruining the other people’s life. She would never marry a mexican. “ I’ll never marry. Not any man. I’ve known men intimately. I’ve witnessed their infidelities, and I’ve helped them do it” , the Narrator narrated. Marrying a man doesn’t matter to her, it wasn’t important to her. She have seen it through her own eyes, how a man would cheat to his own wife. For her these men taught her that a man can never stay loyal to his wife. Men will cheat for as long as they wanted to. “ I was the one who convinced you to let him be born. Did you tell him, while his mother lay on her back laboring his birth, I lay in his mother’s bed making love to you”, described by the narrator. He whom she sleeps with doesn’t his own child to be born for he cheated to his wife. She convinced him to let his child be born for the baby has done nothing to

For instance, she wishes to dress smart only in case an accident should occur so that her body would be identified as a woman. She shows her being a “good woman”, contrary to a “good man” who “is hard to find”. But by doing so she reveals how artificial a Christian she is, that appearance for her is more significant than a “good Christian” spirit. It is her who divides the world into “good” and “evil” but she little realizes the actual parameters of these values. Her subjective point of view makes the borderline somewhat blurred, even the name of Jesus in her speech “sounded as if she might be cursing”. In fact, she is far from an epitome of virtue and it is only the fatal encounter with the Misfit that makes her realize the error of her ways. Hence, to some extent, the Grandmother may be treated as a common Everyman.

treasonable to be a Catholic priest. This shows the contradictions to the religious system due to the

Lastly, Sor Juana concludes with, “your arrogance is allied/ with the world, the flesh, and the devil!” (A Sor Juana Anthology 113). Ultimately, Sor Juana directly refers to men and the patriarchy as evil. This revelation coming from a nun is all the more significant as the church looks down on both evil and sin. Ultimately, her role allows her more influence and gives more significance to her writing as seen by Sor Juana’s uncovering of the patriarchy as evil and sinful.

Nora Rodriguez is a hero because she helped people and families with their paper work. The reason nora Rodriguez is hero is because she fixed papers for people who weren't safe in many states in central America or to get a better life, so nora helped them by fixing their paper work from migratory so they wont be in harm. Heroic describes nora because in paragraph 6 it says that Nora heard about rape, and murder in some places in central American, and the ay she would help people is by fixing families and peoples papers so they can move somewhere safe. Nora is also a hero to immigrants because in the Article it says Honduran hero helps central american gain legal paper work, thats why she is a hero.

Clara married Esteban Trueba, a man who was harsh, quick to react. During the patriarchal society, women were a man’s possession. They had few rights and were exploited and sometimes rejected by men (Metzger). Clara doesn’t put up with disrespect from any man and when her husband, Esteban, hits her during a fight, Clara never speak a word to him again (Allende 223). With this act of cruelty on his part it allowed Clara to escape to her own world of solitude, a spiritual world where Esteban cannot follow her. This world is without rules, without structure, no subordinate to men, no patriarchy, no boundaries (Metzger). These is a gift Clara can give to her daughter, Blanca.

To begin, the protagonist Clemencia is like a chameleon, who can blend into any social event and with any class of wealth when she says ““I’m amphibious. I’m a person who doesn’t belong to any class. The rich like to have me around because they envy my creativity; they know they can’t buy that. The poor don’t mind if I live in their neighborhood because they know I’m poor like they are, even if my education and the way I dress keeps us worlds apart”(Cisneros 71,72). Clemencia is a woman who knows how to talk and have a good time. By nature she is a very creative being who loves to impress by wearing the best clothes, and show off to anyone to make herself seem better than others. (Cisneros 71). Clemencia is poor and does not have much being that she works for the school system as a translator, and other various positions. But acts rich and very wealthy to all of her friends (Cisneros 72). This connects with the myth of La Malinche, of how the character is a bad woman who sleeps with lots of men.

In her writing, we see Juana did not detest romance, but the possessive demeaner men took on and as previously discussed she was not fond of being controlled. "Since I'm Condemned" criticizes men that take on this behavior similarly to the way "You Foolish Men" berates the hypocritical insults and indecisiveness of men.

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, as portrayed in Trambley’s play is only concerned with her own desires. She never shows interest in other women’s rights and she never speaks to other

It is a conventional story where nothing is said that "might offend the general public or be considered a lapse of taste" (Arner 2). Conventional thinking is shown when the heroine, a beautiful and voluptuous Spanish girl who represents the "bad" woman, gives up the idea of marrying a wealthy rice planter and marries a man she does not really want. Alcée also conforms to this thinking, and instead of marrying the hot, beautiful, full-bodied Calixta he desires, he takes the more conventional wife-figure Clarisse.