In Native American Literature, we find some extremely similar issues that students have today that are often overlooked. Although this is the case with a lot of world literature, as English teachers in the United States, we need to be very aware of the history of the land we live in so as to educate the students about their past. So now we get to the story Yellow Woman. This story speaks of a girl who is trapped between worlds and can not find her way past the enchantment that is the world that the strange man gives her. Very much like the little mermaid tale but there is no happy romance story in the end, the woman experiences a small taste of a world outside her own. She is a romantic woman and a drama queen who simply thinks that her life has way more supernatural and epic happenings than anyone else’s life. She refuses to accept tradition and chooses instead to live a life of love and anarchy. However, she realizes that this lifestyle is not one worth living and goes back to her home where she will life in safe peace. The author, in this story, drives home the fact that reality is much better than anything that we can imagine in our minds, and we shouldn’t trust to what our mind wants but instead what we truly need from life.
We as English teachers need to refute some of the bold claims that Disney and other entertainment companies make. If we don’t then we are setting them up for failure as they will only see the romantic ideas that Disney wants them to see and not the more realist views that we, as mature adults can give them.
Perks of the Job 