Passport to Paradise

 The short story Passport to Paradise is a little different than some stories we have read this semester. The women in this story seem to be the ones working all the time in the field and take care of all eight of her children. "Their cane crop had all been harvested the day before, so that day she had begun to weed her vegetable garden. As she always did, she sang one of the old tunes which came from deep in her memory to keep time with her hoe as she dug up the weeds.  She loved her man, her healthy children, her clean house; she was blessed with the strength and courage to work" (Myriam Warner-Vieyra, Passport to Paradise). The woman in this story is the one who has to stay strong. She is the one who is working, taking care of the children, and managing the house. Most of the other stories we have read have the women below the men. This story is an exception in that the women is the main person in this story and everything revolves around her and her doings. Even when the husband doesn't do much she still is happy to have him and you can clearly see her love for him when she goes through the amount of trouble to get his body blessed. When her husband dies, she does everything she can in order to get his body blessed so he can go to heaven. She still cares about him so much that she wants him to be in heaven for eternity and not hell just because his body was not blessed. 

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