Conflict
Setting
- Expectacion wanted to go to war but he was sick
- Women were not allowed to fight in the war
- Women only took husbands spot in the war IF their husband was deceased
- Expectacion was a man of pride
- April, 1910
- Zacatecas
- Ciudad De Mexico
- Great Grand parents House in Zacatecas
What's the Dilemma ?
- Espectacion wants to rebel against the dictator
- Signs up to go and fight
- Has six children to support
- All wives feel helpless
La Guerra De Las Mariposas :
The Butterfly War
Falling Action
Resolution
- The baby that was on the way was my grandma
- I saved my great grandfather from death
- I Kept a family united
- Ended up being my great great grandparents
- Women ended up pregnant
Characters:
- Alma Segura
- Rogelio Guttierez
- Ramona Mendez
- Espectacion Rosales
CLIMAX
- Over the years women have been treated like a second option
- Women took their husbands place in the war
- Soldaderas are a feminist group organization both supported "apostle of democracy"
- I Take this mans place
- I keep going back and forth into time
- A Bullet Scrapes my head and I lose my memory.
Background Info.
Kindred Project
- Women only played two roles; Las Soldaderas and the Intellectuals
- Women were seen behind the shadows of men
-La Guerra de Las Mariposas: The Butterfly War
-Alma Segura
Background Info.
- 1910-1920's
- Mexican Revolution