Las diosa incas

The last peice of literature we worked with the girls was In the Time of the Butterflies, where we talked about the significance of women storytellers, and storytellers as chidren, and in the responsibility of storytelling. It´s a book I am very attached to, and I loved the idea of carrying it around, until Tatiana, one of the girls at the convent. After we read it, she wanted to know all about the dictatorships, and everything that had happened to Peru during those times, and where The Dominican Republic was (where the book takes place). I knew where the book had to go after that.
The assignment was to write a story about either your own village, country, or a made up one, where it is your responsibility to tell the story.
In all the stories, the girls turned themselves into Inca goddesses, into sole survivors of families killed through political situations, into girls falling inlove during politically turbulent times. They were very dramatic, and I loved it.