“The Rain God”: Repression Within the Angel Family

Families are one of the most important institutions in society. Families affect various aspects of human life, such as religion, values, ethics, behavior. Unfortunately, if the belief system or behavior of an individual is inconsistent with family standards, problems may arise. As a result, individuals may be obliged to suppress their emotions and avoid acting in ways not acceptable to their families. In Arturo Islas novel The Rain God, we are seeing stories about maternal families dealing with the conflict.

In the rain, Arturo Islas tells the story of Angel Family - a family of powerful characters such as Miguel Grande and Mama Chona. Both Miguel Grande and Mama Chona strongly reflect the role of women - male gender and the cultural boundaries encountered as Miguel Chico grows up. Miguel Grande shows masculinity as he is explained as a traditional patriarch of an angelic family. As she accepted the identity of the Earth and Chicano and made her more complete, Mama Chona assumed the role of a feminist and always attracted angelic families. Maria - Virginity is a symbol of religious freedom raised by Miguel Cico. She removed the Roman Catholic Church and became the Adventist Church on the seventh day. As he further explained the reality surrounding his childhood, the influence on Mary 's other way of thinking influenced Miguelchico.

Arturo Eslas' planning boundary trilogy novel. These novels follow the mystery of El Paso at the Texas - Mexico border, and from the Mexican Revolution to the Vietnam War, the Character Angel Family in the Delsupo Community. The story is spoken in terms of various roles, but the voice appears in the main character - Miguel Cicco. This novel will jump with the passage of time, including the adult Miguel Chico and continuing to immigrate from Del Sapo from early childhood to the west coast. The strangeness of Miguel Chico - I use this word for both "libido" and "scope", which is implied by "god of rain", which shows this more clearly to "soul of immigrants" . Because his uncle Felix is ​​also a strange character, Miguel and Felix are the subject of the analysis in this chapter and are aimed at exploring the gay migration performance in Rain God.

29 The title of the sequel to "rain" is "immigrant soul: fiction", which emphasizes the emigration to El Paso, not to the immigrants of the angel family. 30 Gender theorist and philosopher Judith Butler argues in her article "imitation and gender dependence" that personal sexual behavior immediately causes self-reasoning risk as a specific idea (309). Through his voice, her sexual desire is considered transparent and hides or disappears questions in various ways. This suggests that transparency of this gender identity is impossible (309), as the conscious self who issued such a declaration can not know the integrity of a person. Butler continued to insist that naming the person's ego would continue the normative criteria set by various structures, although she recognized the organization's political significance under a specific label.