{"id":3255,"date":"2017-11-20T13:10:18","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T21:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/?p=3255"},"modified":"2017-11-20T13:10:18","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T21:10:18","slug":"the-headless-woman-fusion-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/2017\/11\/20\/the-headless-woman-fusion-table\/","title":{"rendered":"The Headless Woman: Fusion Table"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week I read the short story, The Headless Woman<\/a>. This short story, originally in Portuguese by Goncalo M. Tavares, was translated to English by Francisco Vilhena. The story has four characters: a decapitated Mom and her three sons. It is suspenseful and dark, and ends in a mysterious tone.<\/p>\n

The story opens with a mother who has lost her head because her husband wanted more space in the bed. The headless mother searches for her children in a Labyrinth. As she searches for her children, she calls out to them and leaves a trail with her blood. She knows that the bloody trail she leaves behind is her only way to find her way back home and for her sons to find her. As her sons search for her, however, the youngest one cleans the blood as the middle and oldest sons say, “so embarrassing!” When they find their mother, she asks them to bring her back her head. Three days later, her sons find her head and to their anger and sadness, the head does not recognize them. They insult, spit and kick the head. They eventually search for their mother to reunite her with her head but by the time they find her body, she has lost too much blood. In the end, it is implied that she dies and that her sons do not react.<\/p>\n

We can argue that this story shows the unconditional love a mother has for her children, but also the conditional love children sometimes have for their mothers. Also, a simpler moral of the story is to not take up too much space in the bed.<\/p>\n

The network graph I created reveals the relationship of the mom, the blue node, and her sons, the orange nodes. I would like if we were able to have different lengths or different sizes of the lines connecting her sons to her to represent the strength of their relationships. For instance, if she were closest to her eldest son, that line would be shorter and thicker. It would also be fascinating to see the relationships the sons have with each other, and compare the lengths of their lines to each other to their lines to their mother. This way, we are able to see their loyalties and perhaps have insight to their motivations. This could help explain why the oldest son does not scream in the end when his mother says that she is dying.<\/p>\n

My fusion table can be found here<\/a>\u00a0and below:<\/p>\n

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