Analysis Of The World Is An Apple

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Analysis of The World is an Apple In the story, Mario was represented as a person who had a weakness into temptation for the sake of the people with whom he value that much. Mario’s family happened to be in a low state of living in which they were deprived to had a decent meal because they were poor and didn’t had the ability to buy the family’s needs. Mario had to struggle every day to feed his family. He is a father whose primary instinct was to think about the family’s survival even if it meant letting himself fall in the trap of temptation. The apple symbolizes the temptation. It appears to be big and red that could attract a person to have it unlike the one that Mario gave to his daughter, Tita, instead ―a small green apple “but she just threw it away, saying it was not a real apple. Then she cried.” In this manner, what Mario could give to his daughter was not enough to feed her needs. Her daughter was undernourished. She needs nutritious food unlike the “lugao” or “biscuits” that his wife, Gloria, buys for her that’s just what their money could afford. That’s why he was tempted to steal an apple for his daughter thinking that it would make her happy because he had somehow managed to feed her needs. However, he did not think twice and disregard the possible outcome of his action, that he was committing pilfering and might lose something important to him ― his job. He did not think “to bring home pandesal, or rice, or milk and not those ‘delicious’ apple” that are only for the rich because it is what her daughter want. Just like Adan who was tempted to pick the ‘forbidden’ apple, which is exclusive for God, just for the sake of Eva’s wanting of the apple though there are lots of varieties of fruits out there for them to eat which later then became the reason for them losing God’s trust and be kicked out in the Garden of

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