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Woman Hollering Creek, La Llorona to Gritona - Coggle Diagram
Woman Hollering Creek
Resistance
Felice's holler, swearing, unapologetic laugh, and the fact she drives a truck all resists machismo (Cisneros 55-56)
Cleófilas begins to see the disconnect between her fantasy from watching telenovelas & realizing only now the episodes got sadder and sadder (Cisneros 47-49, 52)
Graciela and Felice resists abusive patriarchal systems by actively supporting women and aiding in Cleófilas escape (Cisneros 53-55)
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Silence
“Because to suffer for love is good. The pain all sweet somehow. In the end.” Cleófilas is emotionally silenced by the idea that speaking out would make her “ungrateful” or “disrespectful.” (Cisneros 45)
Cleófilas speaks limited English, making her dependent on her husband and unable to access almost any help or aid. (Cisneros 54)
When around her husband, especially in public, she is literally silent to keep up the image of a "good and obedient" wife (Cisneros 48)
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La Llorona to Gritona
Resistance
Cleófilas initially suffers silence and domestic abuse, embodying the myth of La Llorona. (Carbonell 66)
La Llorona's murder is out of protection, not vengefulness, to protect her son & other children from virtual enslavement as a desperate act to resist the patriarchy (Carbonell 57)
The washerwoman, originally portrayed as La Llorona, is a figure who weeps silently for her lost children but transforms her sorrow into a loud, defiant howl. Symbolizing a refusal to remain silent under the violence of political oppression and maternal loss. (Carbonell 58-59)
Silence
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In Viramontes’s reshaping of La Llorona, the washerwoman is made voiceless by authoritarian violence, losing her son and going out to protest. Only to not be heard or given any answers. (Carbonell 58)
La gritona purses Cleofilas to realize her silence is not the answer, using her voice is. (Carbonell 65)
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