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"Yellow Woman" by Leslie M. Silko was an interesting story about a girl who develops these feelings toward her kidnapper but soon discovers he might not be as good a person as she thought so she returned to her old lifestyle. https://moodle2.unifr.ch/pluginfile.php/268379/mod_resource/content/1/Silko%20Yellow%20Woman.pdf

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This article is about the meaning and use of the mythical character names in the story "Yellow Woman", it explains what the myth is and why it is used in this setting and how it benefits the setting of the story. The article is very short because it is only talking about the characters and the myth related.

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The article, "Yellow Women and Leslie Marmon Silko's Feminism" written by Louise Barnett is talking about the gender roles and how they are influenced by cultures and how it is used in Yellow Woman. She explains in her writing that Leslie Marmon Silko setting includes the living choices of the Pueblo Indian and how the lifestyle of them doesn't include gender differences where certain situations are meant for a man or woman's touch. Her writing is explaining the feminism and gender differences that silko present, this is her explaining the theme of Yellow Woman. The genders or sexes of individuals have no effect because everything should be mutual to where they both can do it. She also includes what is symbolic in Silko's work and what the meaning of thing is that the author is trying to portray, then she relates it back to the Pueblo Indian culture and how it is relevant. She goes further into detail about the theme when she talks about the sexuality of the story.

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Yellow Woman written by Leslie Marmon Silko is a story about a girl who gets kidnapped by a guy and starts to develop romantic connections to him but has a family back home and ends up returning to them with doubts in her head. The Plot (narrative) of the story is all about the myth of the Yellow Woman and how the girl in the story relates to the myth. The kidnapper says that she is Yellow woman while by the river, and says that they should be together. The plot is used all throughout the story like when the grandfather mentions it to her. The plot also talks about the lifestyles of the Puebloan Indians and how the story uses it the background. The characters in the story are the girl, kidnapper, grandfather, the yellow woman, and the rancher. Each of these characters are an important element in the story, the narrator of the girl is the main character and faces a dilemma when she begins to develop feelings for her kidnapper but she already has a family. She also deals with everyone telling her that she is the yellow woman, she is told the stories of yellow woman by her grandfather who died before she came back home. She is also told this by her kidnapper also known as silva who tells her they are supposed to be together due to the legend. He takes her at the riverbank and then takes her back at his home but she learns that he is a thief and not to be trusted but still seems to fall in love. The rancher is the guy who notices Silva as a crook and they get into a fight over the meat Silva acquired. Then you have the actual yellow woman who is unknown yet know, for identity is a secret yet everybody knows who she is. She is a legend or myth from Laguna traditions which were widely known in this location.

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