By Michæl Gorkin, Marta Pineda, Gloria Leal
each one lady tells her personal lifestyles tale, and interspersed with reminiscences of formative years, marriage, and childrearing are revealing money owed of El Salvador's turbulent political earlier and current. mirrored within the tales are the titanic adjustments in academic and occupational possibilities for girls and the shifts in male-female relationships. type variations are nonetheless a basic a part of Salvadoran lifestyles, yet alterations are happening during this zone as well.
From Grandmother to Granddaughter is a shiny and real portrait of trendy El Salvador that convincingly illustrates how person lives can mirror the bigger alterations inside of a society.
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And so that's what we did. I went back to boarding school, and I had good friends there who helped me. They consoled me and didn't leave me alone. That's how I coped with the situation. Eventually I came back to myself again, though the world I'd known before, our family, was never the same again. How could it be without our papa? I was seventeen when I graduated from Santa Ines. I was given a certificate, not a title like those the Ministry of Education gives these days, like "Secretary," "Office Worker," and so on.
I worked it out so that it was exactly on my birthday, March 8th. A good thing too, I've never forgotten my anniversary because of this-not once. I tell you, I was a little nervous that day. For months, I'd been making preparations. A special seamstress made me this flowing white wedding dress, with a trail of 3 meters. She kept corning to the house until she had it just right. I wore a special veil and a crown, and beautiful white gloves. Another lady, a specialist in setting hair, did mine perfectly and put on the makeup just so.
The finca belonged to my grandfather, and some of my aunts and cousins were living there too, along with our family. We all lived in this enormous house with all these corridors, and many rooms. How my grandfather carne to own this place I can't really tell you. I never looked into it. All I know is that he was some high army officer, a close friend of General Martinez, the one who crushed that Communist-run peasant rebellion in the area in the' 30s. He was a fine man, my grandfather. He adored me, I remember that.