Summary Of The Legend Of La Llorona

She drowned her kids out of her own selfishness and she stills searches for them today. The legend of La Llorona is still told today by many people but it originated in southeast Mexico around the eighteen hundreds. The history, purpose, impact, and modern telling all come together to prove the one theme that helps mothers and children across the world. Even though La Llorona wanted all the attention to herself which lead her to drowning her children , she teaches mothers to not have their emotions get in the way of what’s more important and teaches children to respect their mothers by having her story told to them when they are young.
The legend of La Llorona is told very often because of the important lesson to learn out of it’s history.
“ This boy had disobeyed his mother so La Llorona visited him and told him that if he does not stop she will visit him again when he argues with his mother again and it would not be good.”(Kathy Weiser 2012) Some people do not want to speak of the horror that she did so they just say that she will visit the children if they do not obey their mothers. Nowadays people like to keep their children pure and full of only positive things so having a visit from La Llorona is way better than being drowned. “A version says that Maria's lover was a Spaniard, and for this their love was forbidden, even by the Church, so even tho they both had 2 children. Thanks to the pressure of his family, the Spaniard was forced to marry a rich woman, full of sadness, Maria killed herself and her kids in the river.” (Mexico’s legend of La Llorona continues to terrify by Christine Delsol) This version of the legend is old from a sort of religious point of view so people that are focused on religion can here the story. The importance of it being written this way is to put an emphasis on the fact that it wasn’t Maria’s selfishness that made her drown her kids it was the rules that were set. “Maria wanted to cross the border with her two kids but her plan didn’t work out the way she wanted so they had a very hard time getting across. One of her kids became ill so she thought it was better if she buried him somewhere along the way. She needed money but the only opportunity was to sell herself which was not an option for her. She saw a carnival and decided to leave her two remaining kids there and run away. The authorities caught her and in punishment she was condemned to wander eternally in search of them.” (La Llorona by Alicina Lubitch Domecq) This telling is the most modern of all because people from anywhere can tell what it means when