I Rigoberta Menchu Summary

This section of I, Rigoberta Menchu emphasized all the struggles indigenous people had to go through in their fight to preserve their culture and land. Menchu developed her consciousness and was willing to sacrifice her personal life just like her mother did, all for the well being of the community. Something that really intrigue me about this particular situation was that Menchu was willing to go against many of her culture values in order to stop being mistreated. From my understanding of her culture, it must have been really difficult to organize the community because they are highly conservative. Additionally, Rigoberta was able to use the bible’s stories and passages to justify many of their actions. This reconfirms my perspective of the bible being ambiguous and could be used for the enhancement of society
I am positive that the bible was written in order to help the human society improve itself, unfortunately, it could be also use to justify the many wrongdoings of people. Another thing that really surprised me was the weapons the Indigenous people used such as Chile, salt, lemon and many other things that would be not be harmful to us but somehow they used it to their advantage. The things people were doing for their community is just admirable and emphasizes how much they care about one another. This may be a little optimistic, but in the end we are all humans and we should all care for one another. Rigoberta’s community is a perfect model for the world to follow. However, it is impossible to implement this model in our society because there is so much diversity in the world and people will always fight for power. For instance, in the small country of Guatemala the Quiche although they share the same ancestors their cultures and