The story, Woman Hollering Creek, is based on a woman named Cleofilas. She is Mexican woman who gets married to Juan Pedro after falling in love and throughout the story she relates every aspect of her life to the telenovelas. Telenovelas are Spanish soap operas.  She thinks about every how she might react like the certain character from the telenovelas.This story really brings back memories, when I was young, my mother and my grandmother would watch telenovelas from mornings to evenings everyday. I understand why Cleofilas used telenovelas as a form of expression. Telenovelas paint these really nice picture image of what life should be like. Unfortunately for Cleofilas, this did not happen way she saw it on T.V. Juan Pedro ended up being abusive and struck her a few times. When he first slapped her, she taught she would cry and scream and run away and instead she stood there and took the slapping till she was bleeding from her mouth. She was looking for love and thought she would be living a good life with a good husband like in the Telenovelas. Cleofilas is unable to separate the fiction that she sees to t.v. to real life, and is always in surprise that it does work out that way. Cleofilas is able to leave her husband, Juan Pedro, who has brought her pain and unhappiness. Telenovelas played a vital role in the story and it was a form of cleofilas to escape.

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