I really enjoyed the ending of Cisnieros book, first there is the story of the eyes of Zapata the style of writing is very interesting is most in first person is like a self monologue. The story its self i did not like it portrays the woman as submissive and really with no say, and the view of men is the same as in most of her stories the Macho man, in the story the woman has to accept the fact that he has other wives and children other families and she just accepts this and not only that she even feels privilege because he keeps coming back to her whenever he wants, she leaves her family and everything just to be his lover not even his wife because he tells her he'll "never" marry her yet she is very gratefully for a pair of earrings. This attitude to me does not seem typical of Spanish or Latin or even Mexican woman. That is why i like a quote in the story "bien pretty" After Lupe sees a lot of telenovela she mentions she "want[s] them to be woman who make things happen, not woman who things happen to" and then she makes a big distinction between the woman in the telenovelas and the woman in real life she says they are the ones who say "if you don't like it largate, honey. Those woman. The ones I've known everywhere except on TV, in books and magazines. Las grildfriends. Las commadres. Our mamas and tias. passionate and powerful, tender and volatile, brave, And, above all, fierce." I believe this is a better description of woman then what we have been seing in the other stories. In general all of cinieros writings really allow you to be submerged in the stories, she transmits realy well what these woman feel and what situations they are in. I didn't like how she stereotyped a lot but i liked her writing enough that i want to read her other book "house of mango"

Woman of the hollering creek

I realy enjoyed this novel, i htink the author does a great job of putting all the stories together and setting common themes like struggle of woman and protraying different types of woman. like in other books we have read in this oen realigion is also a important theme, like it is on the life of eevry day people. One thing I noticed and also erad from other critics is the fact that she steretypes men alot especialy the image of the Latin men, she portays them all as players and abusers of woman, i belive she should have included more diverse men and not just one type. An intrestign not e that i want to add is that Woman holleirng creek exsist and its a creek filled with legends of spirits o fwoman that hunt the creek specialy of one woman that is said to have killed her baby because her husban left her.

Comments of other of "Yno se lo trago la tierra"

El libro "y no se lo trago la tierra" me gusto mucho, en clase hablamos que el personaje al final no era realmente un viejo sino un niño y que solo era una expresión y eso cambio mucho como percibí el final del libro, pero en general me gusto mucho uno de mis compañeros recalco como hacen sentir a los mexicanos y como los americanos lo tratan mal, después menciono si en Canadá había un grupo similar que se sintiera igual. Creo que aunque Canadá tiene muchos defectos y también hay racismo creo que un grupo en especifico no exigiste puesto que Canadá en si es un país compuesto de diferencia raciales y es algo que como país nos diferencia de otros. Creo que aquí la diferencias están mas aceptadas. Creo que Estados Unidos podían aprender mucho de la manera de ser de Canadá.

mas cimmentarios de "y se lo trago la tierra"

En clase estuvimos hablando mas de las histories de y se lo trago la tierra y como mucho de mis compañeros también pienso que es un libro muy poético y profundo aunque no lo paresia. El libro habla mucho de las creencias de las personas y también se sentar mucho en el cambio y la madurez no solo de niño a adulto pero también en experiencias que lo cambian a uno y lo asen crecerse como en la "comunión" creo que habla mucho de como las experiencias lo evolucionan a uno como persona. Ah mi me encanto esta libro creo que con un lenguaje simple considera pensamientos bien profundos.

y no se lo trago la tierra

Cuando primero mire esta libro, pensé que era un libro de niños por que su apariencia, pero al leerlo vi que no. Lo que mas me llamo la atención de este libro es como la mayoría de las histories tiene alguna conmociones o mención a las creencias religiosas una historia hasta se llama "el rezo." o "la primera comunión" Creo que Hace un gran conmociones entre la gente pobre que sufre y como lo único que tienen es fe. Creo que en cualquier situación o historia es algo constante en la gente latina puesto que la religión y fe es bien importante, especialmente en tiempos difíciles como las de estas historias, un pasaje que me impresiono mucho fue lo que dice una madre "Mi corazón tiene su misma sangre. regresamelo vivo y les doy mi corazón" creo que aquí se ve la desesperación y ultima esperanza es la fe que la gente tiene. El libro en si me encanto mucho creo que Rivera hace un excelente trabajo de trasnmitir la angustia y los sentimientos de la gente cuando cuenta la historia.

Jose marti

I know you are probably tired of hearing this but i also found this reading hard especially because poetry is not one of my favorite types of writing. When reading Marti i felt that he had a lot of the basic, and expected parts of peotryhe had a lot of metaphors, and he uses a lot of descriptions he takes something as unattractive as a bridge and describes it in such detail that he makes it poetry. ( note i looked at a picture of the bridge and its not that great) i believe that being able to do this shows real talent, his other writings also are very poetical the one i like the most was "fiestas de la estatua de la libertad" He writes a lot about the USA but i had a hard time trying to see his connection to Latin America, maybe my poetic skills are not great but i did not find much connection to his roots and how being from Cuba and not from America affect the ways he sees all these places.

The end

Now that i have finished reading the story i agree a lot with what was said in class, that the book has a, not so great ending because it leaves the reader dissatisfied with the outcome. In the end it is a happy ending because Lola finally get her prince and they live happily ever after with her father in Mexico. but its to perfect in my opinion to make it a good ending its not really believable. Also i believe the ending was to fast and it lacks detail. But in general the book even though it was a drama it brought up a lot of issues of that time like racial differences, religious and political differences and gender difference. Issues that are still present in our time and the fact that you can relate to the character in some way or another made it a good story.