1.) Famous playwright Henrick Ibsen once articulated, "A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm." How does this quotation apply to what Menchu articulates in chapter 12?
In a lot of the chapters Menchu talks about the involvement of a community. In Chapter 12 she talks about how it is important that a community must stick together and work as one. Each person in a community plays a vital role to keep everyone going. Henrick Ibsen's word relates a lot to what Menchu articulates in the chapter. Everyone, including children, help the community in running the town/village. Their communities are like a big family that supports one another and goes through everything that they face.
2.) Rigoberta Menchu starts Chapter 13 by using thia quotation, "I'd always see my mother cry...I was afraid of life and asked myself, what will it be like when I'm grown up?" Why would she speak such words? What special meaning do they have to her and other Guatemalans?
They experience the feeling of suffering the moment they are brought into this life. It is the most hardest when you reach the age of being an adult because it requires harder work to provide for the entire family. Throughout Menchu's life she was watched her parents go through many tragedies. She has watched her parents loose loved ones and see how hard her parents must work to support her family. When Rigoberta Menchu would see her mother cry, it made her think about what she will be going through in her future because she knows that she will have to face a life with constant laboring and watching people she loves die due to a harsh life Guatemalans go through.
3.) What part of Chapter 14 really stuck out? Why did this part really take grip? Take some time to reflect on what it is that you have learned so far from this book.
I couldn't believe how someone like the mistress would pay her maids to give her sons the experience of being sexually active. It's really sick because of how they are forcing the mades into prostitution. Not only is it wrong but it is also making them go against their culture. It was disapointing to read how demanding and wrong the mistress and her family was. It's one thing to make your servants scrub the floors and prepare your meals but to force them into having sex with your son is plain out disgusting. Chapter 14 discribes the months Menchu spent in the city with a family. It was pointless for her to be in the city because she never made any money. All the money Mechu got was forced by the mistress to by new clothing that wasn't necessary. This whole event made me sick because of what Menchu experienced living in the city.
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