Blog #2: Tetiyette and the Devil

It's always been a little girl dream to marry a guy of her dreams, when she gets older. In Tétiyette and the Devil, there is a girl who marry her husband based on his looks. I believe that girls and boys should just get to know their spouse first before rushing off to marry them. They don't know what will happen to them in the future. In the story the author is narrating in the third person, so we won't know if it happened to her or someone else that she knows. Tétiyette is the girl that the mother wants to marry off to a gentleman, so she can be happy and out of the house. Both of Tétiyette parents warned her about her trusting people so easily and only base on their looks. The purpose of the story is to give who ever reads the story an experience.  The experience is to show the readers that everything is not as it seems in the story.  My opinion on the story is that judging people on how they look and not to get to know them is one way on not being happy. Tétiyette did just that judge two men before she met the devil and want nothing to do with them. Before the devil showed up on Tétiyette door he covered himself with the finest clothes and gold that the owns. "But there was a devil roaming the neighborhood. For a long time, he had been wanting to eat up the young girl. He put on very, very, very beautiful clothes. He decked himself in gold."  Tétiyette was pleased when she saw the devil but wasn't please when she saw the goat and the pig. She'll tell her mother "Make him go away. make him go away, I want nothing to do with him." This is the exact reason why people should be careful when meeting new people. The story "Tetiyette and the Devil," is based on a funeral tales. The author of the story wanted the audience to be young adults who is freshly single or just got into a relationship. The original language that this story was told in was Creole by a seventeen year old Guadeloupe girl, and it's been translated by Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert. The purpose of this story is for young adults not to trust other people based on their looks and not trust them so easily. Not every story has a happy ending, it also has neutral, horrible, or sad endings. Guadeloupe had experience with many death, there were the funeral tales came too. Stories be told not just to bring happiness, but it also bring seriousness, understanding, and etc to the story.