Exposition - intro to the story, expose
setting - place - Mexico, Cordoba
- time - "Long ago...", sounds like a fairy tale, children's story, Snow White, Peter Pan, Cinderella- her name is Ella, cinder Ella
- culture/psychology - don't like smart/powerful women, don't like witches, matriarch, traditional society
- religion - Christian - Witch Trials
Witch Trials - the Middle Ages, 1300s to 1600s in Europe, the Dark Ages
superstitious -
peasants - poor farmer
folk medicine - folk ,traditional, regular people
Witch Trials -
Trial by Water - water was pure and good
Trial by Fire -
torture
Salem Witch Trials - Salem, Massachusetts
a powerful woman- men don't like that
feminist -woman power
Western culture has a long tradition of associating female/ women power symbols with negative connotation
the moon -cultural meaning of the moon
the moon - feminine symbol
the sun - masculine symbol
the moon - Spanish "la luna" lunar
la - female
el - male
the sun - Spanish "el sol"
moon associated with feminine
luna - lunatic - a mentally ill person, crazy
loony - crazy
moon - strange, weird, scary
full moon - symbol of fear
supernatural creatures associated with full moon - negative,scary
- werewolf - 'were' ancient word - the world, wer
world - the place of men
man/wolf, transforms under the full moon
- a normal man turns into a wild beast under the power of a woman
- vampire - Dracula
full moon -
witches - fly with brooms,
cats are feminine animals
witch and cats are familiars 'a familiar'
staring "her strange black eyes" (77)
Good words or short phrases for quotations
the devil -evil, demons associated with the devil
Lucifer - the most beautiful angel, the fallen angel
the devil -goat
Church did not like Pan
Hallowe'en - ancient Pagan holiday
Incels (involuntarily celibate)- young men who blame/hate women because they are single and can't find a girlfriend
sauce -
source - horse, course
characters -
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