"Just Lather, That's All" by Hernando Tellez

EQ: How are people transformed through their relationships with others?

In the short story "Just Lather, That's All" written by Hernando Tellez, both main characters are transformed through their relationship with others, and their identities play a big role in their choices within the story. At the beginning of this story, the main character, the barber, is faced with a situation most people would be scared to decide. He needs to choose whether he is going to stay true to his alliance and kill the man walking into the barber's shop, or not.
Both of the characters relate to each other because both of them are within alliances of the army, however they are fighting each other. The barber is a rebel, and has the most opportune time to kill his main opponent, Captain Torres. When the Captain enters the barber's shop, the barber starts to sweat bullets, he has no idea which choice he should make, whether to be a killer, or to just give him a shave.
At the initial point of the story, the barber is thinking he is most likely gong to kill this man, however when he walks through the door and takes a seat, he starts to second guess himself. Captain Torres is so relaxed and calm in the chair, secretly knowing that before he went for the shave his friends said he would die, and this makes the barber a little hesitant.
I think that the way Captain Torres was acting, with the fact he knows he will probably die, being calm and collected, makes the barber choose to not kill him. I think this because, I believe that the barber changed his views of murder, and he didnt want to have that hanging over him, when he knows it will be perfectly fine to let him go, even though they are enemies.
Both of these main characters went through big changes within the short story "JustLather, That's All", and they both left that scene with different perspectives of each other and their alliances. Captain Torres has a different view on the rebels, and the barber has a different outlook on likfe, knowing that killing isn't everything.

Identity of Greg from Brother Dear

When Bernice Friesen wrote the story Brother Dear, he created a very specific identity to all of the characters. Even though they all have strong opinions about the way to live life, I chose to write about Greg because he is very opinionated and passionate about living life the way he wants to live it. I can relate to this because Greg is really into the way his life is going, as am I. He chooses to give up school, go protest and plant trees, as his father says, he is a hippe. Although i do not want to give up school and protest, I do have my own plans for life, and if my parents were to not agree of what i choose, I would not be shaken, just like how Greg chooses to stay strong and take a stand against his father.