The Legend of La Llorona
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CURRICULAR SPACE: LANGUAGE
TEACHER: STIVAL, LIANA Target: 3731 628837
Email:[email protected]
COURSE: 1st year 4th division First Cycle
Theme: Narrative texts. The legend.
THE LEGEND OF LA LLORONA
The sad story of La Llorona, very popular in Mexico and the southwestern areas.
from the United States, has several versions, and has existed since the days of the
Spanish conquistadors. It is said that there is a spirit with long black hair, a
woman of unmatched beauty, who walks along the riverbanks crying all the
night, searching for children that she can drag to their death, drowned in the rivers.
The origin of the legend remains a mystery. As has already been said, the versions
they vary, but they all have one fundamental thing in common: that in each version lives
the spirit of a mother who drowned her children, and is now destined to spend the
eternity searching for them in the rivers and in the lakes.
One version of the legend says that there lived a woman named Maria, who was born in
a small and humble village. It had legendary beauty, and captured the gazes and
the attention of all the men in her vicinity. It was said that she spent her days
doing typical things of rural people, but at night, when she would go out to the clubs
and the bars, exciting all the men who saw her. But, this María, also
she had two male children that she left alone when she went out. One day, a person from her
village found the dead children in the river. Some said that she herself them
he killed, but others claimed that the babies died simply due to their
negligence.
Another version explains that a good and loving woman married a man.
rich who always gave her everything she desired. But after she gave birth to her
two children, he began to change. He returned to a life of womanizing and alcohol, and sometimes,
he disappeared for months. It seemed that he no longer adored his wife María, and that
When he finally returned home, it was only to visit his two baby boys.
One night, while María was walking with her children down the street, her husband came by.
carriage only to see the babies. He paid no attention to the woman, and when it happened
this, she lost her control and, enraged, drowned her little creatures in the river. When realizing
he recounted what he had done, he chased after his children who were floating dead in the river.
Since it was evident that it was impossible to save them when he finally pulled them out of the water.
Maria spent her nights wandering the streets of the village, wearing her dress.
white and tall, crying, lamenting the act he had committed.
In 2004, Lorena Villarreal, a Mexican director, made a film called Las
wailing women, in which the legend is adapted to tell the story of three generations of
Mexican women cursed by La Llorona. The film attempts to show how women
they wish to overcome the curse of the legend, and how their fate in front of it is
inevitable.
activities
1- Where is the legend of La Llorona popular?
2- Describe the look of La Llorona
While walking along the riverbanks, what does La Llorona seek?
4- Why is he/she crying?
5- What is the name of La Llorona before the tragedy?
6- What did María do at night?
7- In the second version, why did she drown her babies?
THE LEGEND OF LA LLORONA
The Aztecs no longer walked the streets of Mexico-Tenochtitlan. Now it was called
Mexico, plain and simple. The Templo Mayor did not exist: a cathedral occupied its place. The
the power of the Aztecs was disappearing because of the Spaniards. For them, life
it was also difficult. In addition to the difficulties inherent in a colony where everything had to
changing, unsettling events were accumulating.
The biggest shocks arose at night. It was no longer remembered when it had been.
the first time, but it had become a habit - not because it was expected, less feared - to hear
terrible moans at midnight. No one dared to show their head when
those cries were heard: it was said that the woman, because the laments were of a woman,
I was walking through the streets of the city, dressed in immaculate white. In the light of the
the moon, her long black hair shone. And her scream, chilled the heart:
-Ohhh, my children! Ohhh, my chiiildren!
No one knew where it came from, nor the reason for its lament, although the most were woven.
varied stories: it was said that it was the spirit of a young woman who cried for her children
orphans. It was also claimed that her husband and children had died, and the widow
he was crying his sorrows.
Silenced, hidden but alive, only the guardians of Aztec wisdom knew.
the truth.
The extraordinary woman had appeared to them some time ago, with the same cries.
and the same splendid white dress. The Spaniards first, and the Mexicans
later, they called her the Weeping Woman; but the wise Mexicas knew she was Coatlicue,
Mother Goddess, the mother of Huitzilopochtli, who wanders endlessly through the streets of the
city, lamenting the fate of its children, the Aztecs:
My children... beloved children of Anáhuac, your destruction is near...
where will I be able to take them so they can escape such a dire fate... My children,
I'm about to lose them.” This is what the goddess meant with her crying! And it
still keeps saying.
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TEXTUAL COMPREHENSION:
1- What is the theme that the story develops?
What characteristics does it have to frame it within a legend?
3- Who tells the story?
4- Mark the structure of a narrative text (introduction, conflict, and resolution)
5-Who was called 'La llorona'?
6- Why were people afraid to leave their homes at night?
7- Do you think it is important for a person to have money for someone to
fall in love with her?
8- To capture in a drawing the representation of the legend
9- According to the various versions of the legend, what are the differences?
Write them
10-Write a brief comment about what the story of 'La Llorona' is about.
Now you will become the writer and change the ending, according to how you would like it.
that I finish.
