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# 2025-04-26 - Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson
I read this book to prepare prior to watching a video adaptation.
Since i read this book for entertainment, i will try to keep this
post short.
I would classify this book as a melodramatic romance more than as a
historical fiction. The protagonists are exceptional examples of
humanity and larger than life. They are vexed by many invisible
fiends: -isms such as colonialism, racism, and sexism.
> Helen Hunt Jackson intended Ramona to be a protest novel against
> the mistreatment of Native Americans in the United States. She
> wrote the historical novel in a feverish three months...
>
> Like the Native American village in Yosemite, these tourist
> attractions romanticized Native Americans and legitimized their
> dispossession under the new American government. These myths--forms
> of imperialist nostalgia--gave a way for tourists and settlers to
> understand their history through the narrative conventions of drama.
From: Our Ramona https://boomcalifornia.org/2019/04/29/our-ramona/
This book starts slow, and after the first six chapters it begins to
pick up the pace.
I appreciated clever gems scattered here and there, such as the
reference to The Fates in the opening passage. Indeed, in this book
The Fates have much to shear.
> It was sheep-shearing time in Southern California, but
> sheep-shearing was late at the Senora Moreno's. The Fates had
> seemed to combine to put it off.
I loved the description of the Moreno household waking up and
singing hymns together to start the day.
> As the first ray reached the window, he would throw the casement
> wide open, and standing there with bared head, strike up the melody
> of the sunrise hymn sung in all devout Mexican families. It was a
> beautiful custom, not yet wholly abandoned. At the first dawn of
> light, the oldest member of the family arose, and began singing
> some hymn familiar to the household. It was the duty of each person
> hearing it to immediately rise, or at least sit up in bed, and join
> in the singing. In a few moments the whole family would be singing,
> and the joyous sounds pouring out from the house like the music of
> the birds in the fields at dawn. The hymns were usually invocations
> to the Virgin, or to the saint of the day, and the melodies were
> sweet and simple.
Below are illustrations by N.C. Wyeth. Spoiler warning!
Ramona And Father Salvierderra
Ramona And Senora Moreno
Narrow Trail
Alessandro Shot
The Internet Archive has the 1928 silent film with
synchronized sound.
Ramona (1928), 80 minutes, starring Dolores Del Rio
The Internet Archive also has many versions of the 1928 song Ramona
because it was a global hit that year.
Ramona (1928), instrumental
Ramona (1928), sung by Dolores Del Rio
author: Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885
detail: gopher://gopherpedia.com/0/Ramona
LOC: PZ3.J143 R PS2107.R4
source: gopher://gopher.pglaf.org/1/2/8/0/2802/
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title: Ramona
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