The Amazing History Of Elang Uling

Many people are against feminism because they claim to support families and think that feminists are against motherhood and families in general. This impression many people have of feminism, according to Elaine Tuttle Hansen, is “so ingrained . . . that in an anthology of writing from the women’s liberation movement . . . essays on ‘family’ are prefaced with this disclaimer: ‘We are not against love, against men and women living together, against having children. What we are against is the role women play once they become wives and mothers’” (5; qtd. in Hansen 5). However, this idea did not come out of nothing. Nowadays, many who claim to be feminists often associate motherhood with weakness, submission, and restriction; however, viewing the
When her father dies in America, her stepmother, Tiang, and stepsisters then move in to and take charge of Ela’s house because her father has spent all their money. Because no rich man will marry a woman who owns nothing, to find rich husbands for her daughters, Tiang schemes to drive Ela crazy to steal Casa Grande by telling her to do one thing and, when Ela does as she says, reprimanding Ela as if she has asked for something else. In the brink of accepting insanity, Ela’s mother tells her to enter the dollhouse. There, she is treated the way she once had been when she was Señorita Ela. When she worries about all the chores yet to be done, her mother assures her that she will handle them with her own magic. From then on, Ela spends time with her mother every night. Also, when Tiang asks for a dress and scolds Ela for not preparing a shawl, Ela’s mother turns the dress into a shawl. Soon it is Tiang who feels as if she is losing her mind. On the last night of May, her mother gives her lovely clothes for the parade and a limousine for transportation with two servants on the condition that Ela returns home before midnight or else she will turn into Elang Uling. In the parade, she is crowned Queen of May by George, the richest heir in the province. Before midnight, she runs away from George. However, the clock strikes twelve and the limousine turns back into a toy car, the servants into the kettle and the stove, and her dress into rags. The toy car is found by George, who promises to marry Ela, and leads him to the town jail where she is accused of stealing the kettle and the stove, the toy car stopping in front of her. George asks who Ela is. Tiang says she is just a maid caught stealing, but Ela’s