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A young girl like me. Hadnât I understood⌠responsibilities. Besides, he could never marry me. You didnât thinkâŚ? Never marry a Mexican.
âNever Marry a Mexicanâ, Woman Hollering Creek. Sandra Cisneros. (via emilylmcguire)
I noticed that throughout the novel the characters progressively got older and I thought that was a neat way for Cisneros to tie it all together.Â
Tom McBride, the gay Marlboro Man.
How are you? Silence again. Fine, fine, I mumble, fine, unraveling like string.
Sandra Cisneros, Drought (via writersportrait)
Iâm actually pretty sure that Iâve read the short story âElevenâ before when I was in high school.
âWhat they donât understand about birthdays and what they never tell you is that when youâre eleven, youâre also ten, and nine, and eight, and seven, and six, and five, and four, and three, and two, and one.â
Woman and Hollering Creek by Sandra Cisneros
According to the CDC Latinos represent an estimated 21% of all people living with AIDS. The HIV diagnosis rate among Hispanic women in 2015 was more than 3 times that of a white woman. 1 in 227 Latino women will be diagnosed with HIV in their lifetime. Since the beginning of the epidemic more than 100,000 Latinos with AIDS have died. The social and economic factors in some Latino communities including poverty, discrimination and lack of access to healthcare can increase HIV risk.
Thank you for sharing these statistics. Â It provides perspective in relation to the novel.
View of Acoma Pueblo from mission church Photographer: T. Harmon Parkhurst Date: 1925 - 1942? Negative Number 002068
Iâve read that all of the daughterâs are meant to represent different ideas in Christianity, Faith, Hope, and Charity. I wonder how that links to their deaths or if their deaths are meant to portray something different about each character. The symbolism of Caridadâs death is pretty evident, she ultimately achieves freedom from men and (her stalker Francisco) with her lover Esmerelda by leaping off a cliff. However, Iâm not sure how this relates to both Fe and Esperanza.
Dr. Joe Medicine Crow, the last living Plains Indian war chief, died at the age of 102 on Sunday, April 3, 2016, family members confirmed.
Medicine Crow was born on October 27, 1913, near Lodge Grass.
The decorated WWII veteran and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom attended the University of Southern California where he earned a degree in anthropology in 1939. He is the first member of the Crow tribe to obtain a masterâs degree.
In 2015, Billings school officials named the new middle school in the Heights âMedicine Crow Middle School,â which is currently under construction on the corner of Bench Boulevard and Barret Road. He also appeared for the ground breaking of the schoolâs construction.
Crow was a frequent guest speaker at Little Big Horn College and Little Big Horn Battlefield Museum, and has appeared in several documentaries about the battle.
He was also a historian and author of several books, and is best known for his writings and lectures concerning the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
School District 2 Superintendent Terry Bouck sent out a statement regarding Medicine Crowâs death:
âToday we learned of the Passing of Joe Medicine Crow. Dr. Medicine Crow was a patriot, scholar and the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Billings Public Schools is proud to honor Dr. Medicine Crow by naming the new Heights Middle School after him. Joe Medicine Crowâs âNew House of Learningâ will open in his honor in August of 2016, and we know that his words and deeds will influence all who walk through its halls.â
The National Park Service has more information about Medicine Crow, including this overview:
Born October 27, 1913 near Lodge Grass, Montana, Dr. Joseph Medicine Crow is the last living person with a direct oral history from a participant of the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876.
His grandfather, White Man Runs Him was a scout with General Custer and died in 1925 when Medicine Crow was 11 years old.
Dr. Medicine Crowâs grandparents lived before the United States Government sent Indians to a reservation in 1884. His father was a boyhood friend of Chief Plenty Coups and had advised Plenty Coups to go to the nationâs capital to present the Indians cases for preserving their ancestral land.
Indian Country Today Media Network provides this information about his earning the title of âwar chiefâ:
Prior to WWII, Medicine Crow â who was the first of his tribe to graduate from college â was studying for an advanced degree in anthropology before volunteering for the Army and being sent to Europe.
It was on the European battlefields Medicine Crow completed all of the four tasks needed to become a Crow War Chief. As a scout he led several successful war parties deep behind enemy lines; he stole German horses; he disarmed an enemy; and he touched an enemy (counted coup) without killing him.
The last photo is Joe Medicine Crowâs grandfather, White Man Runs Him, who was a scout for Gen. George Armstrong Custer.
I donât know if anyone else thought this, but when Brown met the kid and the ex-priest about ½ day from the well where they had left Toadvine and the judge and he asked about the party and âif the judge had a weaponââ-it seemed as though he needed water, well, so did the kid and ex-preacher. My question, why didnât he just go the same direction as the kid away from the well? As I read it, I just knew the judge would get the best of him. Although, I have to admit, I thought that was the end of Toadvine and BrownâI wasnât expecting the hanging. I do know why he had to go to the wellâit makes the story better. I am almost done with the book, but whereâs the ex-preacher? Gotta get back to the last chapter now, must know the ending!Â
Actually now that you mention the kid leaving them all there, isnât that kind of representative of the different aspects of the kid? Toadvine would represent the murderous criminal aspect of the kid. While the expriest would be the religious and fearful part of him. The judge could represent the guilt for his past actions? This could also be some past midnight rambling on my part.
New thought; maybe the judge is supposed to represent chaos? Heâs obviously supposed to be something human and also beyond human.
I just read up on judge holden because I couldnât quite figure out what he was, and read a theory that the kid is actually the pedophile and not the judge. Which makes me want to reread the whole book and try to puzzle it out.Â
Studio portrait of Hattie Tom, Native American Chiricahua Apache woman - Frank A Rinehart - 1899
I canât quite get over this line, âAll history present in that visage, the child the father of the man.â What does this mean for the kid in future chapters?
I think it is just absolutely terrifying. All the terrible things that happened to this poor kid. From the situation in which his father is in to the way he was treated as a kid. Just. Terrible.
And yet, he just kinda goes with the flow. I mean, you know that things are affecting him, but he doesnât even admit it to himself. Itâs just always forwardâŚforwardâŚforward. Whatâs he looking for? Where or when is going to be content and comfortable? He seems to have shut down completely emotionally. Quite an extreme reaction for someone whose only real complaint is that his father was a drunk.                                                                      Maybe the book will explain a little more about him to justify his non-existence, but I doubt it. Heâs probably just written as a cypher, someone that the reader can connect with. But, really, heâs kind of a non-character.
I feel the same way. The kid is rarely actually the focal point of the book. He exists to be influenced by his environment. We spend more time with the group he's in than with the kid.
Iâm a little confused. Maybe I read the first chapter wrong, but I canât find it anywhere in the text that the kidâs dad abused him. It just says that he was an alcoholic schoolteacher, who doesnât say the kidâs momsâ name, and that the kid is illiterate.
Churches in Blood Meridian
As another person mentioned, I think the imagery of dilapidated churches was interesting because it also relates to the idea of lawlessness and also how Captain White said that there is no god in Mexico. I also noticed a connection to the fact that when the reverend that was run out of town, the tent that he was preaching in was torn down. It will be interesting to see if we see this more as the book progresses.
Itâs also interesting that the judge is the reason that the tent gets torn down. Do you think that has something to do with what he represents in the book? Maybe science? Heâs constantly proven in the book to be an educated man and science is often at odds with religion especially in the time that this book is set.
