Carol fights against the conventionalisms first and foremost I noticed was because she wears pants, you notice that none of the other women in town were wearing them. Also I feel she was different because she stood up for herself, when Tomi was picking on her she went after him and proved to him she wasn't going to take his crap. I feel that was because of her being raised in America, here women I feel don't put up with as much as Spanish speaking women do, it's not tolerated here. Here is America if a women it outspoken or independent it's normal that is how girls are raised anymore, in Spanish speaking countries for a woman to speak up for herself is taboo and the culture doesn't put up with it.
Miranda Miller
Miranda,
ReplyDeleteI agree, women in America are just naturally brought up and expected to be this way. I think that for Carol, she doesn't even know that the way she is acting is different, becausee in her home it is just expected for her to be independent. I feel that she gets alot of this independence from her mother. Although she is only briefly in the film, Carol's mother is just as outspoken and self sufficient as she is, they even make the comment in the film that she is the only woman in the town who smokes because there only the men do.
Jamie Thomas