Natalia´s Essay

Natalia Gómez Tera

2ºA de educación Infantil Bilingüe

7th June

 Social Sciences

 

The childhood in the Spanish Civil War.

Spanish Civil War was a battle bettwen the two political partys. In this war happende mainly in the little rural towns and in several cities as example Madrid and the town of my grandmother Granatula de Calatrava.

In this war was a terrible because dead many people and other more was killers but the one or other political party.

In this eassy I talk about the childhood of my grandmother in the spanish civil war and also how their life in this time.

Families during the spanish civil war used to work in the land. They mainly lived in towns and most of them were illiterate. Only a small part of the poppulation could have an opportunity to study. Families were big with an avere of children per family.

My grandmother ,Isabel, was born in 1932, in a village of Ciudad Real called Granátula de Calatrava, with a popopulation of 936 inhabitans. She is the youngest of a family of seven, 3 sister and 4 brother, she put me in the picture un a little conversation where she talked about her childhood, her education, her worklife and her daily routines during this period.

With 8 years, my grandmother used to get up very early, and she and her brothers went to work in the land to earn money for living, she also mentioned that they had a piece of land where they grew and sold them afterwards. In spite of working very hard throug this terrible period, they had a happy childhood.

As she was very young, she couldn´t remember the sound of the bombs, but they were aware of the danger. They could be shot by anyone at anytime. Also in the village there was a military airport where the plans landed. In this place the villager, hud goods in a hole to avoid anyone from stealing them.

These taugh years brought supplied problems and the villagers were starving, another the important problems that the villager had were the money because although they worked much never had enough money and the situation in these years were every day worse.

Nowdays the situation have changed for well but in this moment the economic situation is very difficult and the citiship don´t know can with our money and our job, but is true that not worse than in the these years.

During the Spanish Civil War, education was a priviledge for the rich althoug in the village there was a little school where the poor went to learn reading and writing. My grand mother and her sisters attend this school but thet never managed to learnt and noww she is trying again.

One of them my uncle Nieves and her brother Prado when did the military service, they learnt alone to read and to write, and when they finished this service, my uncle continus study and learnt new thing because he liked much.

The Spanish Civil War was very hard but through this my grandmother had a life very happy with her brothers and sisters and they did a several nauthiers as other children of their ager. But is true that the things changes a lot overall in the think of the families.

Firstly, we can said that the families in ourdays at least the son that they had of average are 2 o 3 per children and in the familes than my grandmother of my father they had of average was 7 o 8 per children and in many ocasition they could look for these children and they used to arrive the church were look for the preyant.

Secondly, the education was a priveledge for a little group of person than they had money for paid the teachers, and in ourdays, this thinking don´t appear because the education is forbid for all person and overall for all children.

In the other hand is important said that the population also have changed, because in the civil war the society mainly was rural and their work was in the land and they sold the goods that they grew.

This is a example of a population graphy of the village of my grandmother in these year that I talk:

In conclusion the childhood of my grandmother was a different a the ourdays and the economic situation changed in several points.