Captain Torrez Essay

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Karen Vidal Mr. Clarken ENG 2D1-03 07 September 2012 Captain Torres Aspects The main character on Hernando Tellez’s short story ‘’Just Lather, That’s All’’, it’s Captain Torrez who represents a cruel general that mutilates the rebels that are against his faction. At the beginning of the story Torrez shows how powerful and arrogant he is by telling the narrator ‘’Give me a shave’’. He shows absolute no heart and violence when he refers to killing the rebels, as if he enjoys it and was proud of his job. He even invites the barber to come to his plans he has for the afternoon which just gives one more motive for the narrator to want to kill him. By lying down and closing his eyes he shows how calm he can be but how dangerous he can get. Later on, when the story revolves and comes to an end it changes the point of view towards Torres aspects. Torrez last words ‘’ they told me that you’d kill kill me. I came to find out but killing isn’t easy. You can take my word for it’’ has a huge impact on regarding towards Torrez personality. This ending can be represented in two different ways the first one and the most accurate one is that Torrez did all of that just to leave the narrator living on terror and kill him sooner or later which just proves how sadist and psychopath he is. He could also be proving the fact, that he knew the narrator wasn’t going to be brave enough to kill him, to his peers. The whole plot of the story changes by the ending of the story, Torrez was planning everything ever since the beginning and he just wanted to prove to him that he is better than the rest. On the other hand the ending can also represent as in that Torrez did have a heart but had to do what his job demands to. He also shows compassion by not killing the barber which he could of if he wanted to. His aim was to teach the barber that killing is not as easy as it seems. His last
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