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There are few female characters against the background of male soldiers, maquis and dinner party guests, which is what makes their appearance all the more pertinent. For instance, the maids that work with Mercedes do not concern themselves with anything other than cooking and cleaning; referring to Vidal as, ‘un señorito’ after he complains about the burnt coffee is almost a comical way of showing their total ignorance to his personality, especially when juxtaposed with the fact that Mercedes not only knows him but is prepared to fight him. Similarly the women at the dinner party, Carmen included, do not involve themselves in the discussion in any way other than to ask her, ‘¿cómo se conocieron usted y el Capitán?’ which is a reflection on how under Franco, ‘unos fuertes prejuicios machistas estaban… arraigados en la sociedad… no necesitaban protección del Estado’1 Even Mercedes acknowledges her inferior status before Vidal, saying, ‘al señor no le interesa lo que alguien como yo piense.’ From a more specific point of view, it could be said that it is predominantly the passive

All four sisters reject their stereotypical role as women in the society by standing up for their beliefs and the revolution. When Minerva said,” It’s about time we women had a voice in running our country,”(Alvarez ?Chapter 1?) shows how outspoken she is about her country. The way Minerva demands equality shows the influence that men have over women in the Dominican culture. During the 1960s, the men expected women to be housewives, and to just cook and clean. In the book when Jaimito says,” The Mirabal sisters like to run their men, that was the problem. In his house, we was the one to wear the pants.”(Alvarez, 176-177) That shows that men expect women to be below them.

The women involved with the Mexican Revolution included not just fighters and victims but also reporters with the skill to publish truthful editorials and articles. One of the journalists that Macias references was also a poet, Juana Gutierrez, who wrote investigative articles revealing Diaz' brutality in her newspaper Vesper. For that she was thrown in jail several times (Macias, 1980, p. 55). But "…the horrors of the women's section of the prison of Belen in

Machismo, or male chauvinism, is a concept that characterizes many Latin American male behaviors, most importantly those associated with masculinity and pride. This concept, most likely introduced to New Spain by Spanish conquistadors who embodied these traits, was then adopted and integrated as a part of Mexican culture going forward. Because of male masculinity prevailing over feminine traits during the 17th century, misogyny and the oppression of women became a norm in Mexican culture. Struggling to be valued in Mexico, women turned to literature and art to voice their opinions and expose the machismo in Mexican culture. Through literature and art, is where feminism in Mexico arose and is continually strengthen in. This paper will discuss the ways in which Mexican feminist literature and art over time have exposed and challenged machismo, misogyny, and the Mexican patriarchy since the Spanish Conquest.

In The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, the reader gets a sense of what the expectations are of Dominican men and women. Junot Díaz uses Oscar in contrast to the other male characters to present the expectations of the Dominican male. On the other hand, Díaz presents the women in the text, especially Belicia, La Inca, Lola, and Jenni, as strong characters in their own rights, but the male characters, with the exception of Oscar, have a desire to display their masculinity to maintain power over these women. It would be unfair to say that the women bring the abuse unto themselves, but rather it is their culture that makes the abuse acceptable and almost to a certain extent—expected.

Machismo has been an important issue in the lives of many Latino men. The idea of being a macho man has influenced many men in Latino communities because their culture demands it, and if they are not categorized as males, then they are the burla of the community. The term machismo has been an exaggeration within this novel, since if we focus on each of the characters, everyone looks for Oscar to be a macho. If you look at Belicia and machismo in Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, we can see how she does not fulfill her desire for Oscar to be a macho.

In chapter three of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao author Junot Diaz delves into a theme of maternal love, the sacrifices a mother makes for the sake of her child, in his telling of the story of La Inca and Beli Cabral. The two relatives are introduced to motherhood under similar tragic circumstances, with their names adding on to the list of people wronged by the Dominican Republic’s oppressive Trujillo regime. However, when it comes to the protection of their children, neither mother conducts herself as a victim. Instead, in perhaps the most trying moments of their respective lives, both women act defiantly, spurred on by the desire to save their children from a nightmarish reality. Here lies a striking similarity between the two characters, their capacity to endure anything for their children. As such, the actions of La Inca and Beli Cabral are

Fifty-four years ago an economic and political crisis struck the Dominican Republic, sending thousands of Haitian immigrants to “America the Beautiful”. In a stunning collection of short stories titled Drown, author Junot Diaz explores the brutal struggle immigrant’s faced to excel from “rags to riches”. Repeatedly immigrants found that “…two hands and a heart as strong as a rock,”

Although prostitution may be one of the world’s oldest professions to this day it is seen as a degrading and disrespectful career especially when regarding female prostitutes. In Chronicle of a Death Foretold, the town is very critical and strict about chastity and premarital sex. Maria Alejandrina Cervantes is the town madam which by society’s standards makes her to most marginalized, but ironically she is not brought down by her society’s rules. Gabriel Garcia Marquez uses characterization and irony to demonstrate Maria Alejandrina Cervantes’s contradictory role and to develop the theme of going against society in Chronicle of a Death Foretold.

What makes a writer so unique? What draws a reader to read a writer material? When you think of two great writers does Ben Franklin and Herman Melville come to mind? From beginning to end Franklin exemplified hard work, persistence, and positive thinking which is why he a made wealth in America. Herman Melville on the other hand

Throughout the beginning of the chapter Lola is portrayed as a horrible daughter who rebels against her mother who is dying of cancer. However, when Lola finally gets to speak up for her actions it is finally understood that Lola rebel because of her mother constant emotional abuse. Also, as Lola started speaking her own voice it was clear that her mother made her do everything. She was the one “cooking, cleaning doing the wash, buying groceries, writing letters to the bank to explain why a house payment was going to be late, translating” (Diaz, 56). Lola was forced to be an adult at a young age she did everything and she was even a mother to her little brother Oscar. I think Diaz was as successful in creating a female narrative voice as he is the male one because when reading the novel one can differentiate from the text what gender the character

First, the author portrays strong women to depict a development in a way of thinking due to their resistance of normalized sexculture brought by men within Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez . Victoria Guzman, the housekeeper of the Nasar family, resists the sexual harassment given to her daughter, Divina Flor, by threatening Santiago

Women were still mistreated even if they were their wives or mothers. The story focusses on the inferior status of women even though they were nurturers of men. “Ferré’s fiction focuses on the inferior status of women in Puerto Rico”(Sneva). Rosario Ferre has been credited with starting the feminist movement in Puerto Rico. In the story, the youngest is used by making her meet people and having being forced to sit outside to increase the reputation of her husband.

Values are a vital part of any community. Values help shape the identity of a culture and help to form the identity of every individual. Sometimes these embedded values have more power over a person than one believes. Through the interactive oral I was informed of the female role in Colombian society and machismo. This lead me to examine specifically the idea that women in the text, unconsciously internalize the value that they are the inferior gender of this society, while men are expected to epitomize machismo in their daily ideology. This allowed me to further my understanding of  the different roles of the characters in this novel.

Throughout the world women have been discriminated. Having unfair wages, jobs, voting rights and more. And it is shown through Angela Vicario being judged and told what or what she is not able to do. Though it's been getting better as the years gone by. In Gabriel Marquez novel, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, he uses the character Angela Vicario to emphasize the unfair nature of women's role in Latin American Society through the loss of her virginity, being dictated by everyone around her and the judgement that comes when getting married compared to where families are more focused on making them the brightest they can be and the society is also less judgemental.