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Dec 13, 2021 · Felipe intervenes, helping Ramona elope with Alessandro. They settle on his lush farm and have a daughter together. But their trouble isn’t over, because white settlers moving into the area covet the land where Alessandro and his fellow Indians live.
Alessandro quickly falls in love with Ramona and agrees to stay on at the Rancho. In time, Ramona also falls in love with Alessandro. Señora Moreno opposes the marriage, as she does not want Ramona to marry a Native American. Realizing that Señora Moreno has never loved her, Ramona elopes with Alessandro.
- Helen Hunt Jackson
- 1884
This is the love story between the mixed-race orphan girl, Ramona, and Alessandro, the head of the Native American sheep shearers. When they fall in love, knowing her aunt, who took her in and owns the rancho, will never let her marry a Native American, they elope.
Ramona is very strong character. She understands that Senora Gonzaga Moreno does not love as her daughter. She goes against her and elopes with Alessandro. Later, she keeps her mental strength. Not only she loves her child and named her Ramona. Again, she takes a big decision though she loves Alessandro; she marries her half brother Felipe Moreno.
- The Story and Its Background
- Reception and Influence
- Bibliography
Between December 1883 and March 1884 Hunt sat in the Berkeley Hotel in downtown Manhattan and wrote the 150,000-word Ramona in something of a creative frenzy, regularly producing 1,000 to 2,000 words per day (May, Helen Hunt Jackson, pp. 106–112). She saw the novel as a way to invoke an emotional response to the Indian Question that A Century of Di...
Ramona proved an instant popular success; however, much of its message of social injustice was ignored, with critical opinion focusing on the novel's success as romantic fiction. Ramona was initially serialized in the Christian Union in 1884. The Union's announcement of the forthcoming novel lauded it as "an intensely dramatic and thoroughly modern...
Primary Works
Jackson, Helen Hunt. A Century of Dishonor: A Sketch of the United States Government's Dealings with Some of the Indian Tribes. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1881. Jackson, Helen Hunt. Ramona.Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1884.
Secondary Works
Byers, John and Elizabeth. "Helen Hunt Jackson: A Critical Bibliography of Secondary Comment." American Literary Realism6, no. 3 (summer 1973): 196–241. Mathes, Valerie Sherer. Helen Hunt Jackson and Her Indian Reform Legacy.Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990. Mathes, Valerie Sherer. The Indian Reform Letters of Helen Hunt Jackson, 1879–1885.Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998. May, Antoinette. Helen Hunt Jackson: A Lonely Voice of Conscience. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1987....
Apr 12, 2005 · A beautiful half Native American, half-Scottish orphan raised by a harsh Mexican ranchera, Ramona enters into a forbidden love affair with a heroic Mission Indian named Alessandro. The pair’s...
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Alessandro loves Ramona so much that they elope to avoid any adverse circumstances for them. But, we can see that by eloping they fall in more adverse situation than they expect. No Americans help them out of that situation.
