Woman Hollering Creek/The Marlboro Man

1) New characters: + Juan Pedro Martinez Sanchez: groom, bad husband, not care about family, his wife. Sometimes, hits his wife and leaves her at home alone. +Cleofilas: bride, not know English, always be alone, wants to go back her hometown. +Felice: woman who gives Cleofilas a drive to Greyhound. +Romelia: the author’s girlfriend, used to live with Durango. 2)Setting: + The Woman story happens in house of newlywed couple in Seguin, USA. This house is not new, but they repaint it with new decorations and new paint. There is no television or telenovas in that house. +The “Marlboro Man” story is just a conversation btw “I” and her girlfriend abt Marlboro Man. 3)Plot summary: In “Woman Hollering Creek, the author writes abt newlywed couple in USA. Their life is difficult and not happy like in The Rich Also Cry movie. The husband is ugly, violent, careless. He doesn’t care abt his wife’s feelings and always leaves her alone at home. And she finds the common situation with the woman in rumor. Both of them are poor and unhappy and have children. That is why she hears that woman calling her. In addition, his wife is pregnant and wants to run away from him. She wants to go back to her house because her dad says: “ I am your father, I will never abandon you”. Finally, a happy woman named Felice drives her to Greyhound bus. In “ Marlboro Man”, the author and her friend talk about Malboro Man and make fun at them. 4) New words: +Husky(a)(p49): big and strong + Disgrace(v) bring shame or dishonor upon someone(p50) +Insinuate(v)(p58) introduce into a position or suggest +Holler(v)shout out, a sudden loud cry(p46) +Creek(n)A natural stream of water smaller than a river(p47) 5) Themes: The part that gets involves to me most is the rumor about the woman hollering in the river. When I was young, I had heard a lot of rumors and one of them is about the poor woman. She is a miserable and unhappy woman. Everyday, she has to work really hard to raise her two children, who are five and six years old. About her husband, he is so crude and violent. He always hits her and yells at her although he does not do anything to help her. One day, after he is drunk and began to hit and beat her much more than everyday, she with her children goes to the Sai Gon bridge and then she pushed her children to river. After that, she finally lets herself fall down to the river. And the reason for that is she cannot tolerate her husband and want to find the way out for her and her children. That is why she chooses the death after many years living with her violent husband.