Barbarity and Folk Tales: Braided Sorrow Book Review (Book Review Sample)

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Barbarity and folk tales are in conflict in the Braided Sorrow performance. It is a performance that is rather beautiful as well as obsessive. It is somehow gut-distorting in a way and a bit soft in other terms. The theme or the subject of the performance is quite a real issue in the society although it is unknown by a large population of people. Young women who are from Juarez are disappearing mysteriously as they travel all the way to look and work for factories than are owned by the Americans which are some distance from the border in Texas and the process disappear and not to be seen again. In some instances, the vanished women are discovered having been, assaulted, mutilated and murdered in the end. The performance takes a current mockery of human rights and brings it out in a manner that has an impact the audiences as well as making them quite entertained. It does this by being careful hence does not leave the audience emotionally weakened.
The production the performance took a willfully careful, human approach instead of giving a definite political onslaught. In this sense, the performance is pleasant for the audience although its indispensable sweetness in a way also inhibits it from attaining its full potential concerning drama. The protagonist in the play is Alma, a 16-year-old girl from San Luis Potosi of which is played by Jacqueline Lopez in an uncanny naturalistic way. She performs a breakthrough performance in the play, and the audience needs such kinds of actors for the screen in the future performances and on the silver screen.
The performance is about a sixteen-year-old Mexican teenage girl who departs from her home town of San Luis Potosi in Mexico to go and work in a factory in a place known as Juarez. Since she was a child she had been reading stories of how heroines leave their homes to go and get a better life in the cities and they were in various circumstances successful. It was her turn now also to pursue her dreams just the same way the heroines in the stories she has been reading had decided to follow their dreams. When she reaches Juarez, the place turns out to be a different place of what she thought it was and it starts showing its true colors. As she begins working in the factory, she turns turn to become another object that she never imagined, a work machine in the factory as well as a sex object. Feminicide, which is the mass production of activities that promote sexual violence is the order of the day in her City of Dreams and it turns out to be a city of Death. The reason for this is that women are murdered in a cruel manner at the watch of the authorities who do not do anything to stop the violence.
The version of the stories she read about turn out to be contrary to the real story that happens in her ‘City of Dreams’ and it is not the one with a happy ending. In both places, the United States and Mexico, the issue of gender violence is present, and the authorities that are supposed to protect the people against them do little about it.
The audience is thrilled by the character played by La Llorona who becomes an essential figure in the unlocking of the helplessness where she represents the power of witness as she represents all the womanhood that is wronged. On the downside, the performance is not perfect ...