Assignment~12
"Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit"



The author of this book, Leslie Marmon Silko, describes what happened on that time in Pueblo, where she used to live. More specifically, she compares Pueblo at that time to nowadays. A striking example is that, pregnancy before marriage was celebrated as a good sign, and i think that this has changed nowadays, because pregnancy before marriage is considered as a sin in religion.The author also, shares her personal experience those years, and she said that she faced racism because she was a Yellow Indian woman. I want to mention a momemt of racism that she faced, where she said that "one day when I was in the first grade, we all crowded around the smiling white tourists, who peered at our faces. We all wanted to be in the picture because afterward the tourists sometimes gave us each a penny. Just as we were all posed and ready to have our picture taken, the tourist man looked at me."Not you," he said and motioned for me to step away from my classmates. She said that she felt embarrassed and i felt bad too, bacause it does not mean that because the fact that she was a Yellow Indian woman, she was different from other people or she didnt worth the same things as other people did. Moreover, the author says that, from Yellow woman's adventures, who was a beautiful woman, but not necessarily as regards her appearance, but was the beauty of her passion and her strength to act in difficult moments in life, she learned to be comfortable with her differences. I personally agree, mainly because it doesnt matter if someone is yellow, white or black, short or tall and so on, we are all human beings and we all have to respect each other.