Analysis Of Taking Back The Streets By Temma Kaplan

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"To escape fear, you have to go through it, not around it" said by Richie Norton. This quote relates to what had gone on for women in Argentina during the 1970's. Fear of discovering the truths behind their loved ones disappearances. The horror behind why their sons, and daughters have been taken away by the Junta is an undiscovered mystery, which these women created a movement to uncover. It is only bravery that I can say had helped these women in overcoming their broken spirits; for this, to want to create a movement and find answers to all of their questions on why their children had been ripped away from them. The story "Taking Back the Streets" by Temma Kaplan, displays many examples of different women, distraught by the loss of their families. Nora Morales de Cortinas was one of the mothers in Argentina who lost their child to this corrupt-unknown system. She had explained to the author that her husband had suffered more than she did, and stated: " I only lost a son; he also lost a wife"(Kaplan 103). To be in a situation as that is horrifying, but what these women did was create an organization named Las Madres de Plaza de Mayo, and as a team they worked together to find out the reasons for these odd disappearances. …show more content…

I am not a mother myself so I could not fully relate, but I understand that separation does wonders to any persons self-being. When I was a young girl I left one day because I was tired of the way my father treated me and my sister, it was only hours later till I decided I could not live alone and sleep the cold nights in my local park slide, in which I came back home. My mother specifically, was terrified to what could have happened to me and the look on her face was pallid with desolation. As short and cliché my story may seem, it is a reminder to me and a reflection towards what I could only possibly imagine these poor women had

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