ia_2010_patu_b

=B. Summary of Evidence (500-600 words) Tips]=

After the Spanish Civil War, Franco had left the country in a terrible condition. The impact that the civil war had bought to the spanish was worrying, people had to follow everything that Franco would say or do if not they were kicked out the country 'we were forced to put our right hand up and sing Cara Al Sol, we didn't even know what we were standing up for'1. A lot of the people didn't know why they were doing certain things, such as stand up and sing 'Cara al Sol', which is the spanish Fascist song. People like my mother, when she was a child, had to do it every morning before classes, they all had to stand up and sing to the Dictator. The children didn't know that the song had a political impact on the country, children were too young to know what they were forced to stand by, they just obbeyed to what they were asked to do. 'evey time Franco would be on the television, people were amazed and admiring him'2. Most of the families in Spain just agreed to what they had to agree too, just to be able to stay in their home. The education at that time was very strict and straightforward, history was baised on how Spain was the best country, and how the 'Fascistas' were the people who were improving it. Women, mothers also had a big role after the Spanish civil war, they were also going through a lot of unfairness.

During Franco’s regime, a woman’s place was in the home taking care of the children and cleanning the homeland 'while my husband would be at work and my children were at school, i had to take care of the house and make sure dinner was ready on time, there were no jobs for women'3. Women were forced to follow a familial procedure, like a protocol, it was very traditional ‘Under Franco, women relegated to the private realm and oppressed in a patriarchal family structure which was conceived as the main well of civil society’4. Women like my grandmother went through this, women who didn't have the choice to choose a political party or had the opportunity to work. Other like my paternal gandmother worked for their kids and made sure she would be a success to her family, she was against the reforms and policies that Franco had imposed 'i don't care what he wanted or asked, i needed my children and mother to survive, as my Husband died, i was the only one who could take care of this situation'5. Those are two different extremes, one faught for her and her childrens survivals, as she couldn't rely on anyone else. And the other one was a more stereotyped woman who stayed home and followed the policies that were asked. One part was moree republican and rebellious and the other more fascist and following.

Then came the people who resisted to Franco, the teenagers that faught for their beliefs under any circumstances like my father. He organised riots and leaflets in the center of Madrid, to show that this nation was not to be under the control of one man, eventhough he was powerful, he was not powerful enough to change what he thought, 'I was maybe too young to realise what could have happened to me, but they were certainly not going to stop me from what i was thinking, i wasn't happy with what the country was going through, Franco was making the country too pure, too spanish, and not welcoming, i was sometimes ashamed of my nation'

1 My mother 2 My mother 3 Maternal Grandmother 4 Rubio-Marin (2003. Page 239) 5 Paternal Grandmother