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The Discussion Prep Process Handout
Group Member Names
Jaden Jackson, Cynthia Ostorva, Anjali Latchman
Text(s) Up For Discussion
The Hungry Women: Mexican Medea by Cherrie Moraga Part 1: Summary
In 7-10 bullet points, please summarize the key events of the reading that you completed. These summaries should be
in your own words, not copied from any outside source.
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The play takes place in a dystopian future of a fictional past that Cherrie Moraga wrote in the Chicana imagination.
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The story takes place in the present, future and flashbacks take place as they are events in the past that led up to Medea's incarceration
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Medea, her lover, Luna, her son, Chac-mool have been exiled to Phoenix
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Medea’s husband, Jason was the one who exiled them as he found out that Medea was having an affair with Luna and believes she can come back if she stops the affair of 7 years
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Jason is getting married to another young woman and Medea worries if Jason will take Chac-mool with him
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Luna and Medea love eachother but fight a lot lately and Luna knows that Medea still loves Jason and will leave her in order to keep Chac-mool with her
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Jason and Medea meet again at the end and seemingly reconcile with other
Part 2: Rich Text
Identify 2 sections of rich text from the reading. Rich text can be defined like so: a passage that makes you stop and
re-read in order to understand it; a passage that strikes you as important and generates questions; a passage that you
think can generate interesting and strong analysis by being close-read. These sections should be about a paragraph in
length (5-7 sentences). Feel free to copy/paste or use screenshots in order to capture these sections of text. Half the
students in the group should work on finding one of the sections, while the other half of the group should work on
finding the second section. Rich Text Section #1
(Identified by Cynthia and Anjali)
Chac-Mool: No, I felt sorry for her, not scared. When I was real little back in Aztlán. I used to wake up in the middle of the night just when the wind would kick up and the whole cañon would start crying. I'd go outside and stand out there under the stars and just listen to her. I felt like she was telling me her side of the story. I felt like I was the only one that heard it.
(Scene 6)
Rich Text Section #2
(Identified by Cynthia and Jaden)
Medea: It doesn't matter now. I am the last one to make this journey. My tragedy will be an example to all women like me. Vain women who only know to be the beloved. Such an example I shall be that no woman will dare to transgress those boundaries again. You, you and your kind, have no choice. You were born to be a
lover of women, to grow hands that could transform a woman like those blocks of faceless stone you turn into diosas. I, my kind, is a dying breed of female. I am the last one to make this crossing, the border has closed behind me. There will be
no more room for transgressions.
(Scene 8)
Part 3: Interpretive Question
Creation
Each group member should review the section of rich text they helped identify in part 2. Using this section of
text, each group member should create one, specific, open-ended (not yes/no), question about an idea in
the text based on your close reading of the selected text. Your question should be based in the language
of
the text you chose. (Cynthia)
Interpretive Question: Can Chac-Mool relate the myth of La Llorona to his mother,
Medea? And is this a way of foreshadowing what Medea might do in Act 2 to Chac-Mool?
(Jaden)
Interpretive Question: How does Medea's sense of resignation and resolve to set an example for other women represent the themes of gender roles and societal expectations?
(Cynthia)
Interpretive Question: When Medea talks to Luna in Scene 8, what does she mean by “your kind” when referring to Luna? Is this a way that Medea is differentiating herself from Luna even if they are both in a relationship?
(Anjali)
Interpretive Question: Is Medea looking down at herself as she talks with Luna in Scene 8?
(Anjali)
Interpretive Question: How does Medea think she will be an example for the other
woman who she thinks are like her?
(Jaden)
Interpretive Question: Would Chac-Mool feel sympathy towards his mother if he knew that Medea might be like La Llorona?
Part 4: Thematic Question Creation
Working as a group, consider our reading as a whole. What larger ideas, topics, controversies or issues is the text
raising? How do you know? Thematic Question #1:
How is does Cherrie Moraga carry out the same ideals as shown in Euripides’ version of Medea?
Thematic Question #2:
How do all of the factors in Medea’s life leading up to her incarceration play a role in her making decisions by the end of the act?
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