Monday, December 26, 2011
La Inca and Beli
Walking yourself through the questions to do a feminist critique, analyze how Beli responds to her troubles with the Gangster. The narrator, who is or is not reliable, characterizes Beli as being somewhat blinded by love. On page 142, he says, "like everyone in this damned story, she underestimated the depth of the s**** she was in."After reading this entire section thoroughly moving into how Beli ended up in the US, do a feminist critique of how Beli responded to this major tragedy in her life.
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I was just having a conversation with my brother about his misogynistic cartoons. First I talked about how those kinds of cartoons make women feel that they need to be a certain way to be accepted. I loved being able to teach my older brother about using the feminist critique. He seemed very intrigued and also resulted in making his own observations. (I just had to make that point :D )
ReplyDeleteAnyways, in this section Beli is portrayed as both a naïve young woman and strong woman with full of “fierceness”. I was caught off guard when the story switched on her.
The author’s revelation of Beli’s life at first puts her as a dependent woman. She needs a man to have all of the riches that she wants, which is her form of success. He actually treats her to the riches and then she leaves him because he leaves, but even then she is still in her utopian world. After Beli realizes that she is pregnant with the Gangsters child it states, “This was it. The magic she’d been waiting for. She placed her hand on her flat stomach and heard wedding bells loud and clear…” (138). This quote clearly shows that Beli thought that a child would make him settle down with her but I believe that along with Beli, I was dumbfounded when it was revealed that the Gangster was married to a Trujillo.
Then came the controversy. When Beli was being beaten to a pulp, she still had the utmost desire to have the Gangster save her, stating, “…she maintained the fool’s hope that her Gangster would save her…” (147). This quote is in a way controversial because of the word “fool” the narrator shows that her desire is foolish, therefore criticizing her. Yet, Beli shows her strength and perseverance to survive and keep her child alive at all costs; she didn’t need him.
The quote on page 142, "like everyone in this damned story, she underestimated the depth of the s**** she was in." states that her dependence on this man has blinded her. I believe that she really loved him because of the times they spent together, but the author perpetuates the stereotype that women would go to any length to get the wealth. She waits for the Gangster countless times after he abandons her and still wants to be with him. This makes women in society seem desperate for the “wants” in them.