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Rebellion In 'Just Lather And Nothing Else'

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Rebels A rebel is the act of an individual refusing to listen or follow authority. Rebels are characters who fight for their own ideals. They will do anything almost being malevolent to destroy the limits set up against them. There are three characters that established themselves as “rebels”, from the short story unit. Captain Torres from “Just Lather and Nothing Else” , The group of children from “Green Gulch”, and Nick from ‘Let It Ride” are characters that refused to follow vital human morals In the Latin American culture, especially during a period of violence boys were raised to be “machisomo”which means tough in Latin American. Many of these men, including the character, Captain Torres in “Just Lather And Nothing Else” demonstrated rebellious behaviour because of it. Captain Torres established himself as a social rebel though multiple events. He knew that the barber is a member of the rebel group and has been warned that the barber will kill him if he goes in there. Despite the warning, Captain Torres walked into the barber shop to receive the haircut: “I could cut this throat just so, zip! zip! . . .” (Téllez 3) The barber had multiple provoking thoughts throughout the …show more content…

They need to claim themselves as mature humans with thoughts and ideas of their own. This is a normal part of development and can appear in rebellious behavior against society. This can occur on either a large or small scale. In the short story “Green Gulch” by Loren Eiseley , the group of children displayed rebellious demeanour on a very large scale. The children”… pounded him to death with the stones” (Eiseley 1) This states that they ultimately killed the innocent turtle. Secondly they beat up an innocent bystander. Both actions taken by the children evidently proved that, they had no moral knowledge. They went against everything they were taught and caused major

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Would you put yourself in a life threatening situation just to taunt someone? You probably wouldn’t, but Captain Torres would. This is what happened in “Just Lather, That’s all,” and the Captain got to do exactly what he aimed for. This story uses many different methods to give subliminal messages about the setting to the reader, keeping the reader interested and alert. By analyzing this piece and the techniques that the writer uses, we can tell that when Captain Torres walked into the barber shop and sat in the chair, he knew the barber would want to kill him.

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Others might say all leaders are rebels because they perform illegal actions to get what they want. For example, King, Martin Luther Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail, states, “But I am sure that if I had lived in Germany during this time, I would have aided and comforted my Jewish brothers even though it was illegal.” This means Mr.King would’ve helped unexplored Jews in Hitler 's Germany even if it meant going against the law. This shows Mr.King, a leader representing rebellion as he states he wouldn 't have a problem braking authority. Nevertheless not all leaders are rebels.

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In the short story, “Just Lather, That’s All” by Hernando Tellez, Captain Torres, the leader of the military, walked into a barber's shop to see if the barber, a rebel, would kill him or not. Although the barber and Captain Torres are both enemies from separate groups, it is the barber’s integrity that keeps them both alive, as the barber is the one that could kill Captain Torres faster. The barber had many chances to assassinate Captain Torres, but he did not act on any of them. While the barber is shaving Captain Torres, the captain is taunting the barber, talking about all the rebels he killed in the past few days, including “[the rebels] deep in the woods” (2) and “hanging the naked rebels and then holding target practice on certain parts

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One of the most challenging trials Taylor experiences is the struggle to legally adopt Turtle. After Turtle almost gets molested while at the park with Edna, Taylor and Turtle start going to therapy with Cynthia, a social worker. During one of these sessions, Cynthia informs Taylor that the state has discovered that Turtle has no legal guardian. Not only is this true, “But there was other bad news. During the third week of sessions with Cynthia she informed me that it had recently come to the attention of the Child Protection Services Division of the Department of Economic Security...that I had no legal claim to Turtle” (Kingsolver 233).

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