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Mother Catherine by Zora Neale Hurston is about a women strong religious belief, they were so strong that it was contagious. She had this sort of power over the people who were believers and those that were not, that they felt that they had to obey her immediately. It was also believed that she had special powers that perform miracles, t

As for Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit by Leslie Marmon Silko is about the Native American life on How they thought was the correct way of living life, such as the way the world is lived today. The Native American life was the way of living the perfect life. She touches many different types of ways of discrimination such as gender, sexuality and race. But she mostly explains how it was even harder for her to be a woman with a mix culture, being half white and Native American. But being brought up the Native way she was taught how it was wrong to discriminate anyone for any reason. “To the pueblo way of thinking, the act of comparing one living being with another was silly, because each living being or thing is unique and therefore incomparably valuable because it is the only one of it kind.”( page 144.)

Also what brings this story and essay together is the belief of courage and strength a woman has to over come her obstacles or even pain. Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit “Yellow women is my favorite because she dares to cross traditional boundaries of ordinary behavior during time of crisis in order to save the pueblo; her power lies in her courage and uninhibited sexuality, which the old time pueblo stories celebrate again and again because her fertility was so highly valued.” (page 148) This shows how a woman would do anything to protect what hers, for example when a single mother does everything in her power to make sure her children are loved, well and educated As for Mother Catherine “ After the call she consecrated her body by refraining from the sex relations, and by fasting and prayer. She was married at the time. Her husband prayed two weeks before he was converted to her faith. Where upon she baptized him in a tub in the backyard. They lived together six months as a holy man and women before the call of the flesh made him elope with one of her followers.” (page 104-05) she showed strength, courage and devotion, obstacles th

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