Cuentos de la tierra

I found through reading the stories in Cuentos de la tierra and the Zola article that it is very interesting how the mix of realism and naturalism can have a unique effect on literature. I like how people like Zola began to use science to get a description of social reality because it makes the stories more realistic. If this happens to this person, in the real world this will happen. A lot of times, as shown through the Cuentos, this situations are brutal and sad. I do not like however that the naturalists do not take human will, spirit, and desire in account. Often times, bad things happen to people but they do not sit around letting it happen without putting up a fight. Like in Medias Rojas, the young girl was trying to protect her face from being beaten out of her will to struggle against the bad. I also think that the formation of psychology is very important to literature. It allowed the authors, such as Bazan, to allow the reader to connect the the character and see their personal struggle against something bad. In the real world, everyone has different emotions or sees situations from a different perspective, and by not having every situation being the same, one is able to see the true reality of the world and what real people have to face. I think it is important to write about the bad whether the person loses or wins against the bad because it raises awareness to problems in the world. Like in Medias Rojas, young girls should not be beaten. Change can arise because the stories were written and change the lives of people who are living in the same situation. I think that Bazan did a great job mixing the realism and naturalism in her stories and has raised awareness to many unfortunate situations that happened many years ago and some that are still relevant in today's world. She allowed the readers see into the lives of different people and the struggles they have to face with out them being cookie cutter images of scientific study.