(External Conflict) • After an expedition in search of rebel troops, a captain named Torres arrives at a barbershop that is owned by a rebel. • The barber, being a rebel, has to make a very important decision of whether he should murder the captain and get revenge for the murderers of his fellow rebels or restrict himself from committing a crime. • Captain Torres has killed many of his fellow rebels. He had “[hung] the naked rebels and then [held] target practice on certain parts of their body.” (Internal Conflict) • He is contemplating and listing the pros and cons of murdering Torres. He asks himself many questions such as, “What do I gain from it?...Does he deserve it?”. The barber realizes that if he kills Torres he would have to flee;