{"id":292,"date":"2021-10-28T21:13:45","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T04:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312\/?p=292"},"modified":"2021-10-28T21:13:45","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T04:13:45","slug":"beauty-is-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312\/2021\/10\/28\/beauty-is-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Beauty is Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By describing the sun as you would blood preceding or following instances of violence, Mayra Santos-Febres, the author of the short story,\u00a0<em>Broken Strand<\/em>, adds new meaning to the common phrase, &#8220;beauty is pain&#8221;. The first time Santos-Febres ties together the sun, blood, and violence is after describing the abuse of\u00a0 Yetsaida&#8217;s father. Her father comes stumbling in from the streets, yelling and hitting, grabbing her mothers nose. Yetsaida describes, &#8220;the river that comes out of the nose, red, neon red like Miss Kety&#8217;s comb. The sun arrives, red, red, red; it overflows with blood like a ripening womb, like it has a deep gnash in its system, like they had given it a tremendous beating&#8221; (4). The scene of a broken nose is not pretty, yet the suns rays, described like flowing blood, is somehow poetic, and almost beautiful. Furthermore, Miss Kety constantly reminds her clients that they cannot move, as they could be seriously hurt by the hot comb; yet, in order to be beautiful the girls must endure the harsh heat to get the straight hair they see as beautiful. Similarly, sunsets are seen as beautiful, but when described as the red light pour in and over the walls, the reader begins to question its beauty, as it begins to sound more violent. In all these instances, pain, either through the heat of the comb or the blood of the sun, is necessary for the beauty of the straight hair or the beautiful colors of the sunset. These women in Yetsaida&#8217;s town must endure incredible pain to feel beautiful, enduring the hot comb and the abuse of their husbands. &#8220;Beauty is pain&#8221; is an accepted saying by many, yet by almost making the reader uncomfortable with the description of beauty being painful through the sun, blood, and violence, Santos-Febres calls into question the saying, opening up a new discussion into why we believe this and how this sentiment is open to change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By describing the sun as you would blood preceding or following instances of violence, Mayra Santos-Febres, the author of the short story,\u00a0Broken Strand, adds new meaning to the common phrase, &#8220;beauty is pain&#8221;. The first time Santos-Febres ties together the sun, blood, and violence is after describing the abuse of\u00a0 Yetsaida&#8217;s father. Her father comes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87277,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[90],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-span312","tag-week8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/87277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}