When Life Gives You Lemon's Make Lemonade!!!

When Life Gives You Lemon's Make Lemonade!!!

The Woman Who Fell From the Sky is an extraordinary tale passed down from generation to generation told by the Iroquois (Spiderwoman's granddaughter). The Iroquois Indians could mainly be found in the central part of the America near New York, Quebec, and Ontario Canada. In addition these people were mainly farmers, hunters, and fisherman who in away allowed for sustainability as well as productivity among the land which they maintained. In addition to the fact that the story is derived from the Iroquois community it contains key features of a matrilineal society, meaning that the women were allowed to own property and the men were supposed to align with the family of the wife.

The overall purpose of the story was to explain how earth and key features such as Mother Nature came to be. As the story proceeds the reader can clearly identify with the emotional and moral characteristics of the characters in the story. In the begging of the story the women was told by her deceased father to go and pursue a stranger. As a result of her pursuit she was extremely emotionally as well as morally tested by the man and over a period of time the man found her faithful and married her. However as the story continues the man’s health begins to fail and he begins to seek outside help on the presumptuous reasoning’s of his illness. Ironically the outside presumptions all point to this sweet, meek, and humble women. As a result of these presumptions the man convinces the women to jump out of heaven into a world that is not known to her.

In my opinion this tale is quite fascinating because it provides a very exquisite look at the beginning of creation as well as the causes and effects of the everyday moral characteristics. Overall my favorite character in this story would have to be the woman because as meek, humble, and as tolerant as she was she endured a lot of unnecessary pain and suffering, however she stayed strong. My favorite part of the plot would have to be when she endures the suffering because it showed that when life throws out challenges that it’s not right to run from them but to face them head on making the best out of a bad situation. Today that overall concept remains due to the fact that in life so many situations can injure the overall character of a person if the said person will choose to let it. In life just like the story it’s important to face each individual problems with a clear head and a strong face because than it’s possible to conquer the world. It’s important to understand that to be a strong individual first an individual must conquer the whirl winds that comes there way.

Posted By: Joy Semien

(When life gives you lemons make lemonade!!)