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.
You connected your response to the text very well, and explained some scenes and interactions between the characters with your own words what made me pay more attention because it wasn't just quotes directly from the short story, but comments that expressed your opinion. You included examples from the text as yout evidence and that was a nice way to explain your points.
ReplyDeletePraise: Good job describing the scenes with your personal point of view.
Ponder: The organisation of the paragraphs could be a little better.
Polish: There were a few wrong words.