Agueda Charles
Professor Anel I. Flores
English 1301
April 28, 2007
If you think that all this suffering from Sofi (lost the three oldest daughters) was enough, you are wrong. Now her little daughter suffers from AIDS. The way that people get this disease is through sexual contact or blood transfusion, none of these causes are the case of this surly girl. If is not enough, the doctor who helped her practiced a strange surgery in this girl and extracted an ovary’s tumor. The doctor diagnoses a disease but performs a surgery that he didn’t diagnose in this girl.
God is not far from us; He is as close as breathe. We get far away from God with our decision to flirt with sin
Saturday, April 28, 2007
Seventh Response: Critical Analysis
Agueda Charles
Professor Anel I. Flores
English 1301
April 27, 2007
Francisco “el penitente” is the next in the list of drama. Who is this Francisco “el penitente”? He is the godson of “dona Felicia”. His trade is to make “bultos” or carvings. This weird man shows his loneliness through extremist religious acts. The reality is that he is suffering from an impossible love: Caridad. Caridad has a mild suspicion that “el penitente” loves her. In this story weird things are still happening. Caridad consults a clairvoyant about of Francisco “el penitente”, but the clairvoyant couldn’t help her. Whets next? All this witchcraft trigger demons, which take Caridads’ life with some other lady. Francisco “el penitente” lost his platonic love.
Professor Anel I. Flores
English 1301
April 27, 2007
Francisco “el penitente” is the next in the list of drama. Who is this Francisco “el penitente”? He is the godson of “dona Felicia”. His trade is to make “bultos” or carvings. This weird man shows his loneliness through extremist religious acts. The reality is that he is suffering from an impossible love: Caridad. Caridad has a mild suspicion that “el penitente” loves her. In this story weird things are still happening. Caridad consults a clairvoyant about of Francisco “el penitente”, but the clairvoyant couldn’t help her. Whets next? All this witchcraft trigger demons, which take Caridads’ life with some other lady. Francisco “el penitente” lost his platonic love.
Friday, April 27, 2007
Sixth Response: Critical Analysis
Agueda Charles
Professor Anel I. Flores
English 1301
April 27, 2007
The drama continues. Now is the turn to the “happily just married” Fe, this lady full with hope and longing for a better life than what her suffering family has, started working in assembling factory “Acme International.” This is a company that pays well but seems to handle harmful chemicals. Fe got into contact with those chemicals and in about a year, she suffers of cancer and later she dies. These kinds of stories happen in real life. Many people in Chernobyl Russia that were working in a nuclear plant got different kinds of illness, mutations and even deaths because of the spilling of harmful chemicals.
Professor Anel I. Flores
English 1301
April 27, 2007
The drama continues. Now is the turn to the “happily just married” Fe, this lady full with hope and longing for a better life than what her suffering family has, started working in assembling factory “Acme International.” This is a company that pays well but seems to handle harmful chemicals. Fe got into contact with those chemicals and in about a year, she suffers of cancer and later she dies. These kinds of stories happen in real life. Many people in Chernobyl Russia that were working in a nuclear plant got different kinds of illness, mutations and even deaths because of the spilling of harmful chemicals.
Fifth Response : Critical Analysis
Agueda Charles
Professor Anel I. Flores
English 1301
April 27, 2007
In the next two chapters I don’t know if for the narrator of this novel thought that all the things that Sofi (one of the main characters of the novel) does were not enough, because now Sofi is thinking to run for “la mayor of Tome”. Isn’t it funny? This lady without politics knowledge now is thinking to run as a mayor only because her good intentions of helping that town named “Tome.” I agree with her comadre when she told her: “you’re the one who’s always…always had a lot of …imagination”. Well, imagination or not la Sofi ran as a the mayor of Tome.
Thinking about “la Sofi” I realize that there are people that are already really busy but they are always looking for something else to do. There is a Mexican thought that if you need a favor from another person you need to look for someone that is already busy. Usually lazy people don’t want to help you. On the other side, Fe, “la Gritona” fell in love again to her cousin Casimiro and finally Sofi and her husband Domingo gets news of their other daughter that was in Iraq, she dies.
Professor Anel I. Flores
English 1301
April 27, 2007
In the next two chapters I don’t know if for the narrator of this novel thought that all the things that Sofi (one of the main characters of the novel) does were not enough, because now Sofi is thinking to run for “la mayor of Tome”. Isn’t it funny? This lady without politics knowledge now is thinking to run as a mayor only because her good intentions of helping that town named “Tome.” I agree with her comadre when she told her: “you’re the one who’s always…always had a lot of …imagination”. Well, imagination or not la Sofi ran as a the mayor of Tome.
Thinking about “la Sofi” I realize that there are people that are already really busy but they are always looking for something else to do. There is a Mexican thought that if you need a favor from another person you need to look for someone that is already busy. Usually lazy people don’t want to help you. On the other side, Fe, “la Gritona” fell in love again to her cousin Casimiro and finally Sofi and her husband Domingo gets news of their other daughter that was in Iraq, she dies.
Sunday, April 1, 2007
Fourth Response: Critical Analysis
Agueda Charles
Professor Anel I. Flores
English 1301
April 1, 2007
This next two chapter are kind of strange. In the seventh chapter the writer presents a situation of an old lady (Dona Felicia), who always pretended to recognize unreliable tenants, but this time, she is deceived. A young couple knocked her traila door requesting the Caridad's traila for living in. Dona Felicia feels compassion for this couple with a baby on the way, and let them move in with only the half of the deposit. Later, Dona Felicia realized the mistake she did when nine more people and a ugly dog came to live in the traila. This people, finally stole all the Caridad's stuff that was in the traila. This shows people taking advantage of old and unprotected woman.
The other chapter, 8, seems to be another story. The protagonists here are Helena and Maria. These two friends share the home, and the same spirit of adventure. This made them travel to the land of Maria's ancestors. In the way of this adventure, they found a man driving a truck that followed them and tried to shoot them with a gun. Helena decided to return back and without ending their trip.
Professor Anel I. Flores
English 1301
April 1, 2007
This next two chapter are kind of strange. In the seventh chapter the writer presents a situation of an old lady (Dona Felicia), who always pretended to recognize unreliable tenants, but this time, she is deceived. A young couple knocked her traila door requesting the Caridad's traila for living in. Dona Felicia feels compassion for this couple with a baby on the way, and let them move in with only the half of the deposit. Later, Dona Felicia realized the mistake she did when nine more people and a ugly dog came to live in the traila. This people, finally stole all the Caridad's stuff that was in the traila. This shows people taking advantage of old and unprotected woman.
The other chapter, 8, seems to be another story. The protagonists here are Helena and Maria. These two friends share the home, and the same spirit of adventure. This made them travel to the land of Maria's ancestors. In the way of this adventure, they found a man driving a truck that followed them and tried to shoot them with a gun. Helena decided to return back and without ending their trip.
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Third Response: Critical Analysis
Agueda Charles
Professor Anel I. Flores
English 1301January 30,2007
Another protagonist of the novel: Francisco el Penitente, godson of dona Felicia, was introduced in the same believes of his godmother in cures, witchcraft, and ‘limpias.”
It seems to be the all family is in the santero business, business ran over two centuries. The Caribbean “santero” maintained a kind of secret membership, just as the penitente brothers of Francisco’s land did. Based on ancient African rites, where the “santero” himself contained the power to answer prayers, perform miracles, etc. Different as the medieval Catholic rituals seeking absolution through penance and mortification, but I can see what these two rites have in common when Francisco describe the way is made the “bulto” or “santo”: “his expert hand was not guided by the aesthetic objectives of artists, but by the saint himself in heaven.”
In chapter six the author give us a memory of Sofi’s life, how she got to know her husband, the place where they met, how he called her “silly Sofi,” and finally reconciled.
Professor Anel I. Flores
English 1301January 30,2007
Another protagonist of the novel: Francisco el Penitente, godson of dona Felicia, was introduced in the same believes of his godmother in cures, witchcraft, and ‘limpias.”
It seems to be the all family is in the santero business, business ran over two centuries. The Caribbean “santero” maintained a kind of secret membership, just as the penitente brothers of Francisco’s land did. Based on ancient African rites, where the “santero” himself contained the power to answer prayers, perform miracles, etc. Different as the medieval Catholic rituals seeking absolution through penance and mortification, but I can see what these two rites have in common when Francisco describe the way is made the “bulto” or “santo”: “his expert hand was not guided by the aesthetic objectives of artists, but by the saint himself in heaven.”
In chapter six the author give us a memory of Sofi’s life, how she got to know her husband, the place where they met, how he called her “silly Sofi,” and finally reconciled.
Second Response: Critical Analysis
Agueda Charles
Professor Anel I. Flores
English 1301January 30,2007
In almost all the chapter three, Ana Castillo wrote about cures, witchcraft, and “limpias.” She explain about of certain herbs, teas and different processes “to get well” thru this superstitions and rituals. I was not surprised of that because “Dona Felicia” lived in Veracruz Mexico, in certain town named Catemaco which is famous for people practicing witchcraft.
The writer still added drama to her novel to keep attention of her audience (readers), and Caridad, the lady who was wildly attacked and in process of recuperation, disappear. No body knows about her. A year after her vanish, a couple of men found her in a wild status; like an animal. Not enough with all this tragedy, the people started naming her “la santita” without motive to do it.
Professor Anel I. Flores
English 1301January 30,2007
In almost all the chapter three, Ana Castillo wrote about cures, witchcraft, and “limpias.” She explain about of certain herbs, teas and different processes “to get well” thru this superstitions and rituals. I was not surprised of that because “Dona Felicia” lived in Veracruz Mexico, in certain town named Catemaco which is famous for people practicing witchcraft.
The writer still added drama to her novel to keep attention of her audience (readers), and Caridad, the lady who was wildly attacked and in process of recuperation, disappear. No body knows about her. A year after her vanish, a couple of men found her in a wild status; like an animal. Not enough with all this tragedy, the people started naming her “la santita” without motive to do it.
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