Distortion Of Memory

He is extra sensitive to find his place in the world, as he is trapped between two competing cultural visions. Antonio is in search of role models to follow as he embarks on a quest for his destiny. In the process in finding himself Tony serves as the apprentice to Ultima the curandera, and Tony adapts to going to school, learning about his Christian faith, and an eyewitnesses some fatal events. Along the way on Tony’s path with Ultima he finds that there are so many clues to the answers to his questions. Answers that are incited by his dreams and I think this is why he has difficulties understanding the world around him.

“Tony was exhausted. Tired from the beating he just gave Wes. Tired from repeating himself. ‗If you won‘t listen, that‘s on you. You have potential to do so much more, go so much further. You can lead a horse to water, but you can‘t make him drink right?‘…That was the last time Tony ever tried to talk to Wes about the drug game.” – pgs.

He keeps going back to certain events that transpired that are important to what he is talking about in the

His words become more effective since he's been a slave and knows the experience thus the audience believes that the information he is about to lay is accurate in this

(182). It is a big step for Tony to admit that he has been doubting the Lord. He has never admitted that before, and when he does admit it, he is disappointed in himself because he strayed from God. There are

Tony’s first trial, the death of Lupito, changes him. Ultima helps him come to terms with this but reading the Act of Contrition changes Tony. As Tony grows up he starts to see the world as it really is witnessing the evil of Tenorio and the cruelty of his classmates. As he grows he continues to read the Act of Contrition over the friends he sees killed. Tony starts to take a priests role as he confronts the evil in the world.

they do not know the whole story. In ways, Tony wishes Florence was with him,

Art is often an illustration of the life of its creator. Oftentimes, this can be seen in writers. Works of authors can display the hardships of experiences that they had to undergo. For instance, a renowned writer, Jack London, fits into the classification of writers who have executed such things. Specifically, The Call of the Wild, through its theme of survival, reflects the hardships endured by London.

(26) he feels his soul grow under Ultima guidance. One of Tony’s obstacles in life is to become a man. His mother does not want him to become a man but his father argues saying “everything Tony sees and does makes him a man”(37) but Maria says that it is a sin for a boy to grow to be a man by saying that “life destroys the pureness God gives”. (36) but this is not the only diction Tony has to make. His first dream portrays his insecurity about his identity. He has to choose between the two is he a “fine vaquero” or a “farmer-priest”(9) He is confused, on one side its his mother and on the other its his father. Who should he become? He is also confused about which God to believe in. the golden Carp, who he marvels at the “bright golden-pagan God”(114) on the other side the catholic God “who could not forgive”(120) He does not understand why God cannot forgive Narcisio who is a good man while the Virgin Mary can forgive the evil Teronio. Tony is confused throughout most of the novel. Tony believes that the women always forgive, therefore in his child’s logic he thinks women in general do not judge but always forgive. He has a lot of decisions to make. He remembers his dream where he sees Andrew at Rosie’s and remembers what Andrew had told him in his dream that Andrew “will wait and not enter until (Tony) looses (his) innocence”.(85) Tony’s belief that

Tony introduced to the audience where he grew up like a normal speech. He dressed well, and spoke confidently. After stating where he grew up, he immediately dove into his concept called the, “Man box” requirements to be a man that most fathers tell their boys. In less than a minute from when Tony began his speech he stated, “Growing up as a boy we was taught that men had to be tough, had to be strong, had to be courageous, dominating, no pain, no emotions with the exception of anger, and definitely no fear…” I am sure that every guy has had their father tell them this like this or along these lines. He also brought up personal stories about himself as a kid, pictures of his family, and also

Should individuals hold the privilege to survive or expire, conferring to their personal perception of a “good life” even if they are not hurting anyone else? The exceedingly divided dispute around the procedure of physician-assisted suicide (PAS) asks this very question. Although physician-assisted suicide is relatively new to the realm of ethical issues it is often the main topic in many discussions about proper healthcare and palliative care. Physician-assisted suicide was first explicitly legalized in the United States when Oregon passed its Death with Dignity Act in 1994 (Kotva, 2016). The Act stipulates that “a doctor provides a patient with a lethal dose of medication or another way of causing death, but the patient, not the doctor,

There is no need for him to embellish the truth, because each event could be altered

There were many innovations during the civil war. Many of them are still used today. Among these I have chosen the Telegraph as a innovation that is still relevant today. The popularization of this invention is what made it successful and made it last this long. It may have changed a bit over time but still has the same long distance communication idea in mind.

If given the opportunity to reflect on remembering the past, living in the present, or looking to the future what would I choose? Is it more important to remember the actions of the past or to look towards the future to make life better? These are all important parts of life to think about, but the most important part in my life is to remember the past. Remembering the past in important to one's life because the things of the past guide us to the acts of the future.

Tony is an indian. In the beginning, you get the impression, that he is a sweet, innocent and caring boy. He’s very helpful but also very naive. Through the story, it gets more and more clear, that there is something mentally wrong with Tony. He keeps believing, that the cop is something that his parents warned him about in his childhood, wich he calls ‘a masked dancer’. His parents told him not to look into the eyes, so in Tony’s head, the cop’s sunglasses equals the masked dancer’s mask. And Tony ends up killing the cop, and telling Leon that everything is O.K., it’s killed, they somethimes take on strange forms. He also compares the cop’s raised billy club to the witch’s raised human-bone in his dream.