Dad

Guadalupe V.

April 12, 2012

English 11B

Per. 5

Dad

        My dad grew up in Michoacan, Mexico. I really don’t know any childhood stories about my dad because he hardly mentions it. All I know that he used to smoke when he was around 13 years old. He told it was rough sleeping back then because they had to sleep in the dirt. But the important thing that my dad ended up mentioning was the legend of La Llorona.

         Legend has it that it tells of this beautiful women named Maria killing her children by drowning them in order to be with the man that she loved. When the man rejects her, she had no idea what she had done until she notice that she had just killed her two kids. “After seeing this Maria went into a terrible rage, and turning against her children, she seized them and threw them into the river“ (legendsofamerica.com). It clearly shows that she took out her anger on her kids. She went back to the lake where she drowned her kids and started to cry and yell. She was looking for them and ended up drowning herself as well. “Some believe that those who hear the wails of La Llorona are marked for death” (Wikipedia, La Llorona). It could mean a lot of specific things but clearly it could just means that people could hear her weeping.

         My grandfather told my dad that the lake where the lady drowned her kids was right near where my grandfather lived back then. It was shocking because my grandfather could still hear La Llorona. Kids were getting scared that they could actually hear her and were afraid that she was coming to find them. Weeks or months past by and still, every night, you could hear her weeping. One night, certain guys from the town were saying that they should go out tonight to the lake. TO see if they could actually see this lady, La Llorona. Once it was night time, all the guys went down to the lake together and started walking down. Not even half way there, they heard her screaming and weeping. They started to walk a bit faster and got closer to the lake. All of a sudden, they could see this person in a white blank over it’s body. Then all the guys went to attack this lady. But in the end, it was just a guy playing around. They almost hurt this guy but ever since then, they have not heard anything or there were times where they could hear her spirit.

        In conclusion, really haven’t heard anything about my dad’s childhood. At least he told me this legend of La Llorona. He grew up with that legend and still today, it’s still going around now in days.

Work Cited

Weiser, Kathy. La Llorona-Weeping Woman of the Southwest. Legends of Ameican. July. 2010. Web. 12 April 2012.

Wikipedia. La Llorona. 8 April. 2012. Web. 12 April 2012.