Mr. Espirito's Canyon Of Fortune

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This story as he or she may know if one has read the story, is that it is about three generations of two families in the mix of the Mexican Revolution of 1910. We have Espirito and Don Carlos as our main character. These two characters have interaction due to the symbolic items that seem to catch my eye as I read the story; However, as readers we get a horrible ending with the bloodbath of the soldiers being in Mr. Espirito’s canyon of fortune, one may say. In this story the canyon where the spring was found play a significant role on all the characters who interacted with Mr. Espirito daily, with that said one may guess it is because the canyon means something to him. Of course, during this time the Mexican had a hard life to live. What was the meaning behind the …show more content…

When Espirito had found the canyon after following the deer, this discovery symbolic change who he was as a person. This seem as though it gave him hope, coming from his old location where the spring had dried up. Mr. Villasenor had stated, “water dripped down the face of the cliff and the whole cliff glistened like a jewel in the bright mid-morning sunlight” (658), with the use of personification in that quote showed how much finding that new canyon gave Mr. Espirito hope, the way the water dripping means so much to him. It just crazy how the “sweet” water from the canyon was untradeable to a man who see a man with nothing, but when he sees some gold nuggets is willing to trade. This is when materialistic things come to take over the world and people tries to play games. Mr. Carlos had said, “ For these I can trade you all the food and

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