La Llorona Analysis

Whisking in the wind, La Llorona walks softly in her ghostly form, looking for two young boys who remind her of the sons she drowned. Flashback to the early 1800’s, a woman by the name of Maria was said to be the most beautiful woman in El Paso. She was married to the richest man in the entire town, but was burdened by the two young sons she shared with him. On an eerie West Texas night, Maria is devastated when she sees her husband is leaving her for a younger woman. She watched the carriage carrying her husband and his new mistress get smaller and smaller in the distance, as she is left with her children. The devil came upon her, enraging every emotion she had kept deep within her. How could he leave her; no one was more beautiful than her.
Her sons, so young, innocent and frail, were no match for the river. Their screams are quickly defeated by the water, stopping entirely only a minute later. In the silence Maria comes to realizing what she has done. Horrified, she tries to jump in after them, but it is too little too late. The current is so strong, their bodies are never found. From then on she became known as La Llorona, the weeping woman, her cries heard after that fateful day and never ceasing. Distraught La Llorona, dressed in the same white gown she had on the day her husband left her, refused to eat until she found her children. She walked aimlessly up and down the river banks searching for them. Days turned into weeks. La Llorona delirious with emotion and grief, wasted away until she died on the river bank in the exact spot where her children were thrown in. Until this day she haunts the Santa Fe river valley, searching for her sons, her soul not resting until she does. Children all around El Paso are warned not to go near the river after the sun sets. It is rumored La Llorona kidnaps boy that resemble her sons and then throws them into the river, marked with the same fate as her