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This paper analyzes some of the symbolism in Demetria Martinez’ novel “Mother Tongue.” Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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civil war causes, but rather than despairing, Martinez has used her gifts of storytelling to make the Chicano experience accessible and relevant to mainstream audiences. This paper discusses her novel
Mother Tongue. Discussion The novel is told in five parts, each one focusing on a different character and the themes that identify that person. But the underlying theme of the
entire work is Marys need to define herself by loving a man she constructs to meet her ideals. Critics have noted that many Chicana authors have the same tendency as
their characters: they are trying to find themselves and instill meaning into their lives by some external means; in this case, writing. The Chicana authors that are contemporary with Demetria
Martinez seem to have shared the same pain she has suffered, as their countries convulse and tear themselves apart. Martinez is concerned in particular with El Salvador, and with the
injustices done to the people there-injustices made possible, incidentally, because the U.S. government financed the dictatorship and persecuted the rebels. The reality these authors confront and expatiate through their books
is one of hideous suffering and yet they somehow find hope. In this novel the main relationship, is that of Mary and Jos? Luis, and it is foreshadowed from the
first sentence of the book. Mary is at the airport to meet him, a refugee from El Salvador that she wants to pass off as Mexican to avoid the authorities
(Martinez, 1997). But the moment she sees him she knows what they will be to one another: "His nation chewed him up and spat him out like a pi?on shell,
and when he emerged from an airplane one late afternoon, I knew I would one day make love with him. He had arrived in Albuquerque to start life over, or
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