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Erendira - Directed by Ray Guerra

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In the film Erendira directed by Ray Guerra is based on a book by Garcia Marquez. This film is about a young girl named Erendira who is forced to become a prostitute by her grandmother because she accidently burns their house on fire and she has to repay her debt to her grandmother. Erendira and her grandmother travel place to place to attract more customers. One day while she was working a young boy named Ulysses, one of her clients, feel in love with her. He loved her so much he was willing to help free Erendira from her grandmother. The only way to free Erendira was to kill her grandmother. Erendira convinced Ulysses to try and kill her grandmother, with two attempts that failed he tried one last attempt that was to stab her while she sleep and was successful. After Ulysses kills the grandmother, Erendira runs away to the dessert leaving Ulysses alone with murder on his hands. Erendira is a prisoner of her grandmother because her grandmother is the only person she has, she has to repay the damages from the house, and her mind is already use to prostitution. Erendira only family member is her grandmother. Throughout the entire movie it only shows that her grandmother is the only relative. This gives a sense that Erendira has nowhere to go. In her mind she thinks that it her grandmother is still family and I can’t leave her even thought her grandmother force her into prostitution. This is how girls feel in the article Girls4Sale. “Another pimp saw her alone, shivering in the cold, and picked her up-an older, charismatic guy who flirted, told her she was being mistreated, and said exactly what she needed to hear, “He told me, ‘I will take care of you. You’ll always have a place to live,’” she says.”(Marie Claire Report) This relates to Erendira because these girls are trapped with nowhere to go but to pimps because they will take care of them and protect them. Erendira stayed with her grandmother because she knew she

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