Response paper for Woman Hollering Creek



 Response paper for "Woman Hollering Creek

Today I am writing an essay for my english class, on a book called Woman Hollering Creek by Sandra Cisneros. The subject is this line, "Felice was like no woman she'd ever met", and wether it is compliment or critisism. But before I get to that here is some background on the book. It links two stories, the legend of the weeping woman, and the story of Cleofilas a woman who struggled in her marrige and got divorced, now she is trying to get back to mexico, to see her parents. Cleofilas thinks she is hearing the voice of the weeping woman guiding her. The legend of the weeping woman goes as follows, a woman got mad at her screaming/crying little kids, so she drowned them in the river, but guilt got to her and out of deppression she drowned herself and her soul haunts the river.

So the reason I think that it was a compliment was, that to me it sounds like the reason for Cleofilas saying this, is that Felice is her only hope. Cleofilas was brave for even listening to, the weeping woman. She was also very unique in the way she handled her situation. She was being abused by her husband. Her husband was not only mean, but cruel. For instance, "A hot welt across the cheek. She could forgive that. But what stung more was the fact it was her book, a love story by Corin Tellado, what she loved the most."pg 602

Clefoilas was a strong woman for having the courage to leave her husband. In her frame of mind her husband was like, unto her master. Her husband had complete control of her, in her mind. Now when we think back to, most domestic violence cases, this is usually what it is like. Cleofilas was also heavily depressed, you can see this from her frame of mind, like a show she watches, " episodes got sadder and sadder."pg 603. She said things like, no happy ending, this is what she says and it puts her in a bad mood or is rather evoked by her bad mood.

 I guess you could say Felice is hope to Cleofilas, that Felice is successful and nice too. Because,  "Everything about this woman, this Felice, amazed Cleofilas." Pg 604. Cleofilas, thought she was amazing, because Felice had no husband, but had her own truck and the money to pay for that. Felice was everything Cleofilas needed for a mentor, Felice was what Cleofilas wanted to be. Felice was sooo happy it seemed that she might even be a little crazy.

In conclusion, Cleofilas was down and depressed, looking for a way out. When Felice came into Cleofilas life, it was her hope, and her way out. That line would have been a compliment, considering that Cleofilas had an unexplained love for this woman. Cleofilas was in need and thought it was a big deal to just leave, but Felice did it with ease, and enjoyed helping Cleofilas, who was almost a helpless woman. Cleofilas always had this half hope, half fear attitude to everything she did, and it stopped her from acting for herself, and simply leaving her husband to go back to mexico.