“Who would’ve? Pain or rage, perhaps, but not a hoot like the one Felice had just let go. Makes you want to holler like Tarzan, Felice had said. Then Felice began laughing again, but it wasn’t Felice laughing. It was gurgling out if her own throat, a long ribbon of laughter, like water”
Title: women Hollering creek
Author: Sandra Cisneros
Felice and Cleofilas were in the car, driving away from Cleofilas husband. They were both fill with happiness to know that she is free from domestic violence. This was the moment they crossed “the arroyo”.
This statement relates to the extreme story as a whole because this is the moment CIeofilas was waiting for the moment her husband places his hands on her. This moment in the passage symbolize freedom and women empowering herself. In the story Cleofilas was constantly beaten by her husband. She had no where to run too until Felice rescued her.
This statement remains me of “The yellow Wallpaper. In the end of the story, Johns wife crawled over his body as he laid flat on the floor shocked that his wife free. This same sense of freedom is also shown in “Women Hollering creek”. Both women were controlled by their husbands and finally found a way out. In “The Yellow Wallpaper”, Johns wife was confined in a nursery and in “Women hollering creek”, Cleofilas couldn’t go nowhere without the help of her husband.
“Therefore we must fearlessly pull out of ourselves and look at and identify with our lives the living creativity some of our great grandmothers were not allowed to know. I stress some of them because it is well known that the majority of our great grandmothers knew, even without “knowing it”, the reality of their spirituality, even if they didn’t recognize it beyond what happened in the singing at church and they never had any intention of giving it up”
Title: In search of our mothers gardens
Author: Alice Walker
This statement from the story is explaining how most black women are afraid of creating the world of creativity. This is explaining that our great grand parents didn’t have the opportunity to do what we are capable of doing because they were not allowed to do so. Our grandmother knew the talents they had.
This statement related to the story as a whole because the story talks about our ancestors inability to feed their creative nature. They were too busy working and didn’t have free time to unravel anything stuck in their minds. We have the ability to do what our ancestors were unable to do but as stated in the text to be an artist and a black women lowers your status ins many aspects rather than raise it.
This statement remains me “Professions for women” by Virginia Woolf. In the story it speaks about bridges that women have to burn that to work in a field that love. Women are viewed in a different way if they write about certain things. So they battle with the angelic identity that society have created versus the real them. “In search of my mothers garden” also relates to this issue because most women are afraid to be creative because of what society would say.
