Rosita Espinosa: Tell us a Story!
By Susie Graham
Rosita Espinosa. We know so little about her. With The Walking Dead, we don’t need to know everything about characters to care about them. We learn to love them (or hate them) based on their actions in this survival situation we’ve been invited into, along with the bits of background they provide along the way. Who they were is generally less important than who they become in this new world.
Rosita has been loyal to Abraham yet she has been able to remain independent and learn new skills along their cross-country journey. She has also managed to become friends with some of the girls and show compassion and forgiveness to friends, new and old.
I’m obviously not a writer for The Walking Dead, but I had an idea of something fun that Rosita could do in a future episode that would be interesting to me to help the group get to know her and inject a little Mexican culture and superstition into the show. A little ghost story within a ghost story. It would be cool if she could tell the story of La Llorona to one or more of the characters at some point. Maybe around Tara’s hospital bed or at a river side?
If you don’t know the story of La Llorona, it is one that every Mexican knows. You can click the link for a full story, but the summary is this: a beautiful woman who thought she was better than everyone got a most wealthy and handsome man to marry her. They had two children but then the man started to go out on her. She got so angry that she threw her children into the river and drowned them. She immediately regretted it, but it was too late. She was found dead by the riverbank. That night people started seeing a woman in white burial clothes wandering by the river moaning and crying for her children. They started calling her The Crying Woman. To this day, parents warn their children not to go by the river in the dark because La Llorona might grab them thinking they are her children. Many Mexican people swear this story is true or that their family has heard her in Mexico. Or the story happened in their grandpa’s or uncle’s village.
I think it would be a cool story for Rosita to tell. It wouldn’t take long and it would be fun. I also wish she would toss around a little bit of Spanish. And maybe Daryl could talk about the Chupacabras again!
Do you ever get ideas for the show? I generally don’t speculate on the plot or think about things that may or may not happen. I’m surprised I got this idea. But it really doesn’t affect the plot, just characterization. Share your thoughts in the comments. See you on Twitter @UndeadWalkingFS
La Llorona: Story
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