I believe that all of the cuentos were women’s stories because it was a grandmother trying to prepare the women for married life and all of it’s the ups and downs. Also to tell the women how to protect themselves, so that they would not be hurt the same way that these women in the stories have been hurt. It is mostly for the women in the family to protect the women in the family.
I think that some stories that would be from the other stories would be taking care of the family and war stories. Also stories that are about hard work to take care of you families to protect and care for them, to be the provider for the family and be the head of the family. Some of the stories could be about how to survive in war so they could fight for their country and come back to provide for the family. Also there could be stories of war that they might have had when they fought for their country. They also could tell stories about how to survive in a place where you don’t have much to survive on.
I think that there could be many people telling these stories on the male side. It could be from the wise old grandfather that has the most experience of all. Could be a father telling a curios son. An uncle telling nephew about things that the father won’t tell. Also an older brother talking to a younger brother that may have a few questions about certain subjects he cant talk to his father about.
Hi Clay,
ReplyDeleteI find it interesting the different subjects that you explain womyn and men might have. Why is it that womyn may discuss feminine matters and males may discuss masculine matters. To take this a bit further, we may explore what constitutes as feminine and as masculine? Who determines what?
Ms. C
Well I was basing the women or womyn on what the book was talking about and nothing else and I was basing the men on what my relatives have told me in the past.
ReplyDeleteAww, so you are going off of personal experience. Interesting.
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