From what point of view is the story told? Do you feel pity for JuvencioNava?
What will be an ideal response?
- Until nearly the very end, the story seems to be told from a limited omniscient point of view, with everything portrayed as it is filtered through the consciousness of Juvencio Nava himself: his memories, his attitudes and motivations, and his feelings about himself and what is happening to him. The last three paragraphs describe events that take place after Juvencio’s death; references to the unspoken thoughts of his son, Justino, indicate that the son is now the point-of-view character (“He cinched him up tight against the rigging so he wouldn’t fall on the way. He put a sack over his head so he wouldn’t give a bad impression. And then he prodded the donkey and they hurriedly left, in order to reach Palo de Venado still with time to arrange a wake for the dead man” [par. 69]). In its totality, then, the story is narrated from the omniscient point of view.
We would imagine, and hope, that students will feel some degree of pity for Juvencio, no matter what he may have done to incur and perhaps even deserve his fate, if only because he is a fellow human being who is suffering the agony of imminent death. They may also pity him a little because of the triviality of the incident that has finally tripped him up after decades of successfully eluding capture and assuming he no longer had anything to worry about. It should be especially interesting to see to what degree that pity is compromised and undercut in your students’ minds by his past actions and his present cravenness, which extends even to a willingness to put his son’s life at risk in a desperate effort to save his own.
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What will be an ideal response?
Which of the choices corrects the run-on sentence? Phil told me about losing his job, house, and dog I no longer felt so bad about the ink stain on my new shirt
a) Phil told me about losing his job, house, and dog, I no longer felt so bad about the ink stain on my new shirt. b) When Phil told me about losing his job, house, and dog, I no longer felt so bad about the ink stain on my new shirt. c) Phil told me about losing his job, house, and dog; I no longer felt so bad about the ink stain on my new shirt.