Please help me give this essay a good focus statement, point 1, and point 2, will give a large amount of points.

La Llorona is a folktale based off a woman who's jealousy led her to drowning her kids and to her eternal punishment. The
original folklore of La Llorona and the book Summer of the Mariposas are comparable as well as how they are different.
McCall kept La Llorona's original lore, it being how she drowned her kids and wondered the waterfront searching for
them. McCall also kept majority of La Llorona's looks the same. In the actual folklore, we see that La Llorona is a beautiful
woman who sorrows and cries. This is the exact same scenario in the book of Summer of the Mariposas. There are some
differences in how she was put out: but when Odilia first saw her, she was said to have been pretty. Further on she reveals
her true form, being old-looking, saggy, basically ancient. McCall has also kept her scenery as well, being near by the
waterfront.
McCall completely changed La Llorona's personality. In the folklore, we see that she is overconfident and considerably
cocky: however, we see that in the book Summer of the Mariposas she is tamer, calmer, and kinder. McCall did not really
include her full lore, her being a beautiful woman in search of the handsomest man in the world and her being
abandoned by her husband. Another thing is the actual plots between the book and the folklore. There were no sisters La
Llorona watched over, no goddesses, none of the sort. Another difference is the way the characters affected La Llorona.
In the book, we see in the end she ascends to the stars to be with her children because of Odilia, basically La Llorona's
happy ending: however in the actual folklore, she eternally is to roam the waterfronts in search of her children.
This covers how both Summer of the Mariposas and the original folktale of La Llorona have many things that bring these
two stories together. There are many differences that give both these stories they're own identity and own creative
originality.