Assignment: XII

"Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit".

All the stories of "Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit" were so beautiful and unique in its way of transmitting and telling these stories. This book is about a native American girl who just because she looks different, she is judged and society excludes her, but all these awful things happened when she went to college far from her home. She describes her home, Pueblo, as a unique one and so different from other places, where everyone can be accepted. In Pueblo the way of living and the mindset of people's lives is so different. There, women are treated like men, they are equal. Everyone is free to live their lives as they want, without being judged and so this raises a big theme, which is identity. It is expressed just from the way the people live like I said. Here are some lines which best describes it: "Before the arrival of Christian missionaries, a man could dress as a woman and work with the women and even marry a man without fanfare". We can also see the identity factor in the author's life as well, how these stories have helped her to build her character, herself and to feel beautiful and unique from the stories. But mostly, what I loved from these stories, was the way of how women were treated, as strong one, who had the same position as men, and how women could do everything without permission or when they were treated as HEROES.