Literature Circle Blog 1

The first scene I drew was Emilia and how she was raped and by the humiliation brought upon her caused her to go blind(pg102). I selected this scene because I feel its important to understand what young innocent Mexican girls back then in the time of the revolution were experiencing. The torture of foreign soldiers taking advantage of you because you are the innocent enemy. In this scene I learned about Emilia that she is very pessimistic. She views everything that has happened to her is a punishment from god. What I learned about the political view on this chapter just by reading what happened to Emilia is that the war like any other war was corrupt and unfair to those innocent people had nothing to do with it, and that the president Don Porfirio did noting about it. The second scene that I drew out was when Dona Margarita goes out to beg without her children knowing. Then one day when Juan Salvador goes to town he sees her in town begging but does not recognize her ,he hears people speak badly about her and so does he but when she turns around he realizes the disgusting old rag is his mother(pg150-151). I think this scene is very powerful because Juan didn’t want to tell his mom that he saw her so she wouldn’t be embarrassed, because after all she was the daughter of the great Don Pio and was educated by the best, so he felt it was wrong to belittle her in that sense. That show how much respect and love he has for his mother. The respect he has for his mother makes Juan Salvador change and commit to never see his mom beg for money never again. The economy during the war was rough , Dona Margarita had to beg for money because money back then was impossible to receive since the government was mostly spending it on the war.