No Aguanto by Leticia Urieta

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essay, “No aguanto.” Sharing her personal experiences along with a number of other women’s experiences with both chronic and treatable ailments, she paints a picture of the expected and silent suffering of women. In her piece, Urieta successfully insights her enduring and suffering female audience to advocate for their bodies and health through persistent resistance to the health systems that place blame on women.

Urieta’s power in this piece lies in her ability to paint a vivid and persistent picture of women’s silent suffering. She immediately establishes her understanding and trust with her audience by denoting the Spanish term “aguantar.” Through this definition, she provides a strong foundation for the persistent endurance that she describes throughout her piece: “There is a word in Spanish that comes back to me: aguantar. Strictly translated into English, it means to endure despite the weight of a negative force, but its usage can move across contexts. The ...

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use of denotation.

Urieta gives even greater gravity to the idea of endurance through her repeated use of personal anecdotes, noting multiple descriptions of her own endurance. Most powerfully and vividly, she describes her experience with a UTI that she allowed to persist well beyond the threshold for treatment: “My husband and I waited four hours before I was finally able to see a nurse. Despite the excruciating discomfort written on my face, the extent of my infection was not taken seriously until I handed the nurse a sample of my urine that was black with blood. Taking it from my hand, she muttered, “Oh my God,” and I was rushed into a room to receive antibiotics. ...

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