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Just Lather That's All By Hernando Tellez

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Nolan Clarkson Mrs. Daley ENG 2D1 26 March 2024. The Art of Decision Making Under Pressure. Have you ever had to make a hard decision? Was the pressure of making that hard decision starting to get to your head, but making it easier along the way? The novel “Just Lather, That's All” by Hernando Téllez is an amazing short story about a barber who has to shave a captain's beard. This captain is a well known killer, and throughout the whole story the barber must decide whether or not he should kill the captain, with many chances to do so, it is an internal fight between the right and wrong choice. The theme of Just Lather Thats All is that decision making under pressure helps make hard decisions more fluid and easier. This can clearly be seen when the captain walks into the shop, when the barber is about to give the captain a shave, and just as he finishes up shaving the …show more content…

The barber was sharpening his razors for his next customer when a captain who has murdered a lot of people walks in looking for a shave. When the barber recognized the captain, he “started to tremble”. Hoping to conceal my emotions, I continued sharpening the razor” (Téllez 1). This evidence proves how the pressure he was facing helped him make the decision by showing how the barber started to tremble in fear at the sight of the killer captain, showing he is nervous, it can also be seen that he is concealing his emotions, showing us how he is worried that the captain might find out that the barber is aware of what the captain does. These 2 factors when he was under pressure led him to the easy flowing, and quick decision to continue to sharpen his razor and not say, or do anything that could jeopardize himself. That is why the decision the barber had to make about the captain was made easier, and less stressful due to him being under

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