Finding Voice on the Train by Guerrera De Amor

Latin American Diary History of the Mexican Revolution Project: This is a class project that challenges the forms of traditional story telling. May the odds be forever in the people. Finding Voice on the Train May 31, 1910 Oh diary! You have no idea how scared I am. My brother Diego Angel left Patzcuaro to join Zapata and join the revolution. It has been awhile since I have seen him. Me estoy volviendo impatient (I am becoming impatient). Maria’s six brothers were killed and I am worried. Why is it only the men’s role to join the war? I too, am alos upset at the tyrannical rule of the government…yet when I speak… no one listens to be unless I do something with my body. Yesterday, I did something that my mother would not allow… I went to the station and helped the nurses take medicine and supplies for Zapata’s people. I ended up meeting a lot of women who felt the same way I did. They were tired of not having a say within something that affected them directly--- if not worse… I don’t know … for the first time I was seen as a person. Then, the most amazing thing happened….welll not amazing… we got to the campsite and there were men all over the place… I was so scared at first… I thought battle was going to be go through… but I saw a guy with and he was wounded… Maria grabbed me by the hands and threw me into help her heal the gentlemen. She told me to just hold his hand and be the supporter and distract him from the pain while she pours ointment. I felt like puking and not getting close… however… I did… and so I started to tell cuentos (stories) about where worlds aren’t tyrannical… economically repressive, or… even macho world. It’s about to acknowledge macho world is a world that prisons their true macho identity… I asked for his name… and his name was Juan Diego. Ahhh wait… I just heard shots… I am actually writing and riding on a train… My mom is not going to see me anymore… I got to go out and help tell the stories….

Genre

Storytelling