"Woman Hollering Creek" and Life Changes

Paper Summary:

The paper discusses the plot and the main character of Sandra Cisneros' book, "Woman Hollering Creek". The paper describes the life changes and revelations that the protagonist Cleofilas undergoes after she marries and moves far away from her home town only to find that she is all alone and her husband is abusive. The paper further explains how the story is partly akin to the life of the author herself and that because of this, Cisneros is able to provide a very clear view into the thoughts and motive of Cleofilas as well as provide a clear view into the disappointment of Cleofilas once she has become inundated with the reality of marriage versus the television novel fantasy that she has grown up believing in.

Outline:
Introduction
The Characters, The Plot, and The Theme
Changes and Realizations
Cisneros: Providing a Voice to the Dispossessed
Summary and Conclusion

From the Paper:

"Juan Pedro and Cleofilas live in Texas after their marriage and running behind their house is a creek, which has been named 'Hollering Woman Creek' although no one can quite recall why this name was given the creek. Juan Pedro beats on Cleofilas and suffers the beatings silently. After the beatings, Juan Pedro cries and Cleofilas comforts him. The town that the two live in is desolate and Cleofilas is sure that another woman had been in her home while she was gone to the hospital giving birth to their first child and yet, she still does not verbalize this belief and stays silent."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Candelaria, "Letting La Llorona Go," 113; John M. Ingham, Mary, Michael, and Lucifer: Folk Catholicism in Central Mexico (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1986), 110-112; and Edward Garcia Kraul and Judith Beatty, "Foreword," The Weeping Woman: Encounters with La Llorona, ed. Edward Garcia Kraul and Judith Beatty (Santa Fe: The Word Process, 1988), xi. Jose E. Limon surveys other precedents for this identification in "La Llorona, the Third Legend of Greater Mexico," 416.
• Cisneros, Sandra (1991) "Woman Hollering Creek," Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (New York: Random House, 1991), 55-56
• Cisneros, Sandra (nd) Woman Hollering Creek Study Guide. Book Rags. Online available at: http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-womanholleringcreek/intro.html
• Doyle, Jacqueline (1996) Haunting the Borderlands: La Llorona in Sandra Cisnero's 'Woman Hollering Creek'. Frontiers Publishing Inc. 1996. ProQuestion Information and Learning Company.
• Gilbert, Matthew (1991) Cisneros Gives Voice to the Dispossessed - The Boston Globe 14 May 1991.

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