Historias Color Tierra 2. Los Pequeños Cuentos De Mi Madre (2003) - Plot & Excerpts
The Colour of Water is such a seamless transition from The Colour of Earth that I feel everything I said in that review can be applied to this book as well. The messages about sex, the mother-daughter relationship, the story of Ehwa gradually maturing, and even the heavy-laden metaphors about nature are all here in full force. Going into this series I had known that it was challenged in libraries for its discussion of sex, but I didn't know what the story would exactly entail. This series is definitely daring with what it does within its genre for young adults. Hell, sex in YA is so contested that people have created the new genre of "New Adult" just so they can write books about how teenagers do in fact have sex and allow themselves to able to describe it in all the dirty detail they want to, without having to market teen sex to adults or explain why sex is being marketed towards young adults. That's what impresses me about this series. It's about sex, but it doesn't instantly make the jump that sex needs to be dirty. This is a very tame book. The characters are talking about butterflies and flowers most of the time and yet there is still a very honest discovery of sex and even masturbation. However, the story does have its draw backs that showed through more in this volume then in the last. The metaphors felt more haphazard to me. In the first book there was more of a focus, more of a simple thread that tied everything together. Here we go from flowers, to wind, to storms, to rivers, to vegetables, to butterflies, to moths, to fire, to fire-butterflies. It seemed like anything in nature was able to be metaphor-ized. Are fire-butterflies even real a thing? They're never shown. At first I thought they were butterflies with wings that look like fire, then I thought maybe it was mythic. (Fire-butterfly! The lost Pokemon!) Then the way the characters described it, it was a butterfly that is attracted to fire, which made me think "moth", but then they say it's not a moth, and moths are used to describe a negative. So I don't know. Can you tell how much this is bothering me?Now that I've finished this book I will say, fire butterflies aside, I really am interested to see how it all ends. While I was reading I was caught off guard how invested I've become in these characters and their lives. I want to know what happens next and you can bet that I'm putting out a hold for the next book right now. Seriously, right now. Sometension between mother and daughter in this volume. Both are in love and spend a great deal of time discussing the objects of their affections, but they also compete a little too. When an older man takes a liking to Ehwa, he sends an offer to her mother to buy her. Ehwa's mother refuses and keeps the offer quiet. At volume's end Ehwa's beloved has discovered the secret and vows to leave and come back a rich man so that he will be worthy of Ehwa and able to protect her from people like the old man.Great characterization. Not as much nudity as in the previous volume, though still quite a few sexual innuendos. The writing is beautiful, poetic at times. A quick read, but one that lingers in your thoughts long after.
What do You think about Historias Color Tierra 2. Los Pequeños Cuentos De Mi Madre (2003)?
Liked the first one better. Getting the third at the library today. The drawings are so beautiful.
—Alison
Hummm... separo ke belakang kubaca kilat... :P
—AwesomeBriBri
