I, Rigoberta Menchu (Seis)

1,) What is CUC and what role does it play in Chapter 15?

In Chapter 15 the CUC stood for Comité de Unidad Campesina.  It was the United Peasant Commitee that Rigoberta Menchu's  father organized. After months working  as a maid in the city, Menchu decides to go home with the little money she earned because  she found out that her father was thrown into jail for protesting agaist the powers of men who were trying to take over their land in their village.

2.) Menchu articulates in Chapter 16, "What would happen if we rose up against the rich?" Think about that question. The potential power and fear contained within those words. Why did no one respond? Do you think you would have responded? Why or why not?

None of the nuns wouldn't answer Rigoberta Menchu's question because it would mean that there would be a lot of blood that would be shedded. Everyone would try to aviod this question because it would mean that many loved ones would die for what was just. Everyone in Menchu's village understood the situation very well. They all wanted to do something about all of what they were going through but they knew that the rich would have a greater advantage than the poor.
3.) Menchu begins Chapter 17 with another Popol Vuh reading. "...They began to fulfill the destiny which was concealed in the marrow of thier bones..." What does this quotation play in terms of this chapter?

In Chapter 17 the beginning of the Civil War began. The quotation reflects on what the natives had done to defend themselves from the government. Soldiers would come to villages and invade everything that the indigenous has. Soldiers would come and kidnap the leaders of villages. They would come and freely take potatoes and corn. It would anger the people because it was going against their culture since it was a custom to do a ritual to ask the gods to pick the crops. The soldiers were very distructive the natives would fight back by setting traps on certain pathe and homes.

4.) Menchu speaks in detail about Judith, Moses, and David in Chapter 18. Choose one of the three and explain their example.

Judith was a famous icon to the natives during the Civil War in Guatemala. She gave courage to the people to keep on fighting. Judith fought very hard for her people and made many attacks against the king they had then. She continuously fought until she killed the kind. She help the kings head high in the air to show everyone her victory. Her story gave the people in Guatemala courage and a strong vision on what they must do to defend themselves.