ia_2010_patu_d

=D. Analysis (500-650 words) Tips]= Section D :

The relevance of the investigation of its historical context :
Franco**'s** reign is historically significant as people today are still affected by the impact pf the Civil War, like my mother and father for example. When they now hear the name Francisco Franco they either think positively or pessimistically depending on the family where they grew up. For Spanish people it is still hard for them to hear the name Franco or even “Fascista”. When my mum watches a television series called “Cuentame lo que paso” which is a series that was made before and after the Spanish civil war, it shows how a family goes through it how poor they get, how little kids play, how the teenager has a resistant club against Francism. When my mum watches this she immediately thinks of the song “Cara al sol” whitch she had to sing every morning before classes. It is also historically significant as it can explain the difference between two situations, from one side we have my maternal mother and on the other my paternal, they are both from different social classes. Now the country has changed from believing that Franco was the saviour of the country to a big percentage of the population to now erasing all monuments or memories from him in Spain. "A good number of statues have ended up in military installations." (Jesús de Andrés, a political science lecturer at Madrid's UNED university - http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/06/franco-name-erased-spain). The government is now socialist ruled by José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero who has imposed the law for them monuments to be removed and to be fergotten in the Spanish nation. Yet the country is under problematics due to this Socialist governement, as it is always labeled. Will Spain ever be free to be content? That is the questiont that we, all spanish ask ourselves.

One was bought up in a world where her husband was the director of a bank and under the responsibility of four kids, she was a stereotyped housewife. At the time she might have not cared following Franco's reforms as she said “now that I think about it I don't think that Franco has made any progress in our country, but at the time I was following what was best to do for my family and myself, I was in other words manipulated by him”. She thought about her survival and fergot everything about her beliefs and morals.
 * Conditions for middle-class Women**

On the other hand there is my paternal grandmother, whom was bought up in a very lower class family, a family who wasn't a united, a husband who had died at the age of 23, 3 children to take care of and of top of that her own mother. They had a Renault R5 to travel around considering the fact that she was in the car with 6 other people. She didn't have a home, they had to sleep in rented rooms, share a room for seven people, with an atrocious kitchen and sometimes not even a bathroom “the conditions were horrible but that's all I could afford for my children, it is all I could give them, god knows I wanted the best for them, but I needed to work like a slave everyday for that little bit of comfort”. She used to work in factories as cleaning lady and sometimes a sawer. She used to work until surreal times and at the same time pay a decent school for her children. On the other hand, my paternal grandmother was going through hard moments and needed to save her family, this means she was against Franco, she didn’t care about his reforms, or the laws that were imposed in Spain, her family was before anything else. Evenso she still was still able to stick to her beliefs and morals, she was against him and didn't want to follow the countrie's policies. For example my father, who organised riots in University in Madrid.
 * Conditions for working-class women**

How did they justify what they had been through?
What they said was not justifies as it is only an oral testament, so is it reliable? We could use both grand mothers as counterclaims as they both lived different moments of the impact after the war with different situations, but is waht they said relevant to the question of this essay? It is relevant but perhaps they are judging what they lived in the long term, which can be seen completly differently because nowadays Franco is seen as a big dictator in Spain, and a man who really hurt the country morally, so they might judge very subjectively but not objectively enough.

Nevertheless what my paternal grandmother could be justifies. As i said her reactions were very feminist, as she did waht she wanted and didn't really consider the fact that she could end up in serious trouble if people found out. Well in the 1930s a group of women was created to fight against their gender if i must say. "Mujeres libres" - Free women. They said "We are aware of the precedents set by both feminist organisations and by the political parties... We could not follow either of these paths. We could not separate the women's problem from the social problem. Nor could we deny the significance of the first by converting women into a simple instrument for any organisation, even.. our own libertarian organisation" This shows that they did not let people treat them like that, and that feminism was to be recognised in that generation. My granny may have followed that path of women and may have considered to do the same thing to save her family. When i talked to her about it, she was not familiar with these terms. Although subconsciously she kind of followed that path.