Themes in the book I Rigoberta Menchu

Throughout the book Rigoberta constantly talks about how close her community is. First of all in Rigobertas community the community discusses every decision, no matter how small. Decisions such as marriage is first brought up with the boy and the girls parents, then when they have made up their mind, then the boy and the girls parents go to the village representative to tell they the boy wants to get married. “The community elects its leader but everything he does has to be approved by the others. What the community does no approve cannot be carried through” (R.M. pg. 128). So no matter what the decision is

All in all, the book I, Rigoberta Menchù: An Indian Woman In Guatemala is heavily based on community life and the natural world. Even when they were preparing to protect themselves from the ladinos they preformed a village ceremony where they asked “the lord of the natural world, out one god, to help us and give us permission to use his creations of nature to defend ourselves with” (R.M. pg. 125). So even in desperate times, they do things together, as a community and consult their God. Thus proving, once again that community life and the natural world mean everything to the Indians.

the whole community has a say in it, whether it is marriage, or something much bigger. Like what the community has to do because the ladinos tricked them to signing their land away. Secondly the community is always looking out for other members, whether they are sick, or have just had a new child. For example, when a newborn baby comes into the world their customs say that the baby must spend the first 8 days with only its mother. “The community takes over all the household expenses for these 8 days and the family spends nothing” (R.M. pg. 11). If a member of the community is sick, or someone has just died the community will help out and give all they can to the person to help them out. Even if it evokes more suffering upon their own lives and the lives around them. Finally from the point in time when a ch

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