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."
             The girl was first recognized as the Yellow Woman after the man ordered her to go with him "He smiled now, eyes still closed. 'You are coming with me remember?' He sat up now with his bare dark chest and belly in the sun. 'Where?' 'To my place.' 'And will I come back?' He pulled his pants on. I walked away from him, feeling him behind me and smelling the willows. "Yellow Woman," he said. I turned to face him. 'Who are you?'" (Silko 721). 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.
             She then denies to Silva, the stranger in her life, that she is not the Yellow Woman. "But I only said that you were him and that I was Yellow Woman – I'm not r...

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