Letter To The Author Of I, Rigoberta Menchu :: essays research papers

Dear Rigoberta MenchuI thrust recently read your autobiography I, Rigoberta Menchu, in which your portrayed as an oppressed yet ultimately triumphant victim of classism, racism, colonialism, and of course sexism. In your pack got you talk slightly your family, a Quiche Indian family, which was very silly. The small piece of land that the family owned did not produce enough to feed everyone. lifetime story on a plantation was harsh.People lived in crowded sheds with no nibble water or toilets. Your raft, the native Indians in Guatemala had no rights of citizenship. You were restricted to bulk of Spanish descent and were, therefore, vulnerable to abuses by those in power."We are accompaniment in a troubled world, in a time of vast uncertainty. Its a time to reflect about many things, especially about humankind as a whole, and the balance between collective and mortal values". This is something you have mentioned and something that I completely agree with. Indigen ous people are among the most victims of terrible incomprehensible repression and violation of the law in many parts of the world.The atrocities that you wrote about in your book are both(prenominal) compelling and heartbreaking. Though, I have not limited myself there, I have investigated further your story. I searched the Internet several times about your book, story, and life what I prepare amazed me. I read articles stating that your book I, Rigoberta Menchu is incorrectly chronicled. "A recounted in your autobiography, the story of Rigoberta Menchu is the stuff of classic Marxist myth. jibe to your book you came from a poor Mayan family, living on margins of a surface area from which had been dispossessed by Spanish conquistadors. Their descendents, known as Ladinos, try to pose the Menchus and other Indian peasants off claimed land that they had cultivated. As said in your book, you are illiterate and were kept from having an education by your peasant father, Vicente. He refuses to send you to school because he needs to work in the fields, and because he is afraid that the school will turn his daughter against him. From the articles I found on the Internet it has been proven that you went to a private institution, and that your family wasnt as poor as to the point of starvation.You make these linkages explicit "My personal experience is the domain of a whole people". It is a call to people of profound will all over the world to help the noble still powerless indigenous peoples of Guatemala and other Third World countries to gain their just inheritance.