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I found i really, really enjoyed Julia Alvarez plainly and simply without the music. I could not understand the purpose of having her poems sang out in a really crude manner. i say crude because although it was opera like, it didn't feel like the music gave the poem the same emotion it illustrates when it is just read aloud (at least in my opinion). i could see how it should have correlated with the flow of the poem's form, but it just didn't attract my emotion as much as Alvarez did when she read them aloud.

Alvarez, was very down to earth. She read poems, that although depicted the very essence of woman's oppressive characteristics, told the other story. The story that tells of these "womanly" and thus inferior characteristics as a willing part of the lives of many woman. To me, it felt as though she viewed such "demeaning" acts such as folding laundry as a memory in which she held her most treasured beliefs and sentiments toward her family.

I mean to me, it just feels like feminism has gone too far into the ocean, where it can't see anymore. It can't see that maybe some women don't want to be "more" than what they are. Maybe more is possible but it is not wanted. Maybe there are women out there who want to be the stereotypical mother and wife. I'm not saying that this is true for everyone, but i just feel like feminism has taken it's toll on society so far that it does it's job as well as contradicts it. It disinvites ALL women from enjoying a life as such, because it puts a negative spin on it that makes being a loving house wife and mother a tool used in the manipulation of women.