As everyone reaches their late teens, we began to think that we can start making decisions on our own. Everything might seem fine, but we began to bump our heads and then reality kicks in. Making decisions on our own might not be as easy as it seems. The quote “Momma knows best” could have saved you from a tough situation. In the short story text, “Tetiyette and the Devil”, recorded as told in Creole by a seventeen-year-old Guadeloupan girl in 1971. The story is a funeral tale that took place in Guadeloupe. This story addresses an adult audience, but can still provide information for teenage girls. “Tetiyette and the Devil” will have you guessing what happened next as it deals with life lessons, tradition, spiritual, and a history of stereotype against women. The logic behind this story will make you guess if it’s real or a factual tale.
Have you ever looked at someone and judge them based on how they look? Well in “Tetiyette and the Devil”, it informs you not to judge someone based on their appearance, but by who they really are on the inside. This story can be considered real because everyone in their life have liked someone by just looking at them and later on found out that the person wasn’t really who you thought they were. The daughter in “Tetiyette and the Devil”, fell for the wrong man based on his clothes and his looks. After marrying the wrong guy, her life was in danger because she really married the devil. The mother warned the girl about the devil and told her to find out if he was a real human or the devil. The daughter disobeyed the mother and then when he began to eat her up she called on her family for help. She began blaming her parents for her marrying the devil. Which is something that most of us do when we get ourselves into a situation, we blame our parents for us not listening. The history of this short story also makes out that the males are dominant and have to save the woman and protect them.
We can save ourselves from trouble, if we listened to our parents. We have to realize that our parents have experienced things that we haven’t even seen before. They don’t have to make every decision but when it comes to certain things and we ignore them like the daughter did. It can sometimes cost you a lot of pain and suffering or even your life. This story can be given to your teenage daughters to read before they start dating. The author told this story in poetic form as a call and response technique to get people to remember things.
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