yellow woman
There are issues regarding Sexual issues are problems in every society. In the story, "Yellow Woman" written by Leslie Marmon Silko. A young woman is troubled after she awakens by her sexuality identity and discovers that she is the "Yellow Woman" that her grandfather was talking about. The stranger she is with is the coyote, and her family is the badger. "The Yellow Woman character often appears in Silko's writing as both a traditional figure, strongly connected with nature heterosexuality, and as a female character awakening to her cultural and sexual identity." (Silko 721) "There is one about Badger and Coyote who went hunting and were gone all day, and when the sun was going down the found a house. There was a girl living there alone, and she had light hair and eyes and she told them that they could sleep with her. Coyote wanted to be with her all night so he sent badger into a prairie-dog hole, telling him he thought he saw something in it. As soon as Badger crawled in, Coyote blocked up the entrance with rocks and hurried back to Yellow Woman."
Silva is getting more aggressive, and is frightening the woman. " The woman starts to notice that she is becoming the Yellow Woman and would like to leave but she is too afraid to go. ' 'And will I come back?' He pulled his pants on. Silva sexually harasses the little woman, by undressing her slowly, and touching her all over. She wonders if they are questioning her disappearance. Before she leaves with Silva, she reassures herself about not being the yellow woman when she says, "Eventually I will see someone, and then I will be certain that he is only a man - some man from nearby - and I will be sure that I am not Yellow Woman" (Silko 722). She then denies to Silva, the stranger in her life, that she is not the Yellow Woman. Silva would tell her that he was the Ka'tsina spirit, a mountain spirit of the Laguna Pueblo Indians. In the Native story, the coyote told the badger that there was something in the hole, so when the badger left, he locked all the doors (all connections) between them. Later, she argued with the man, that she is not a "Yellow Woman" but an ordinary woman, who lives on the other side of the mesa. st recognized as the Yellow Woman after the man ordered her to go with him "He smiled now, eyes still closed.
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