One Of These Days

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One of these days is the story of a dentist, Aurelio Escovar, who is introduced as a poor dentist without a degree. Opens his office in the early morning at 6:00 in a rainless day, which 2 hours later the mayor arrives to see him. (Marquez, One of these days , 1962) His eleven year old son shouts that “papa the mayor wants to you to pull his teeth (Marquez, 1962)”, at first he refuses to examine him. Until, the mayor threatened to shoot him. (Marquez, One of these days , 1962 para.1). Eventually, he lets him and put his revolver ready, in case if he shoots him. But, when the mayor enters the door, Aurelio looks at him and saw many nights of the desperation in his dull eyes, he closes the drawer, and softly told him to sit down (Marquez, 1962). …show more content…

This story tell us what happened, what was the reason it happened. First, the dentist polishing some false teeth, the mayor comes, and he declines to see the mayor, are the plot of the story, the initialing incident accurse when the mayor intimidates to shoot him, if he did not pull his teeth out, and it starts to raise an action, and develops the conflict, that’s where the dentist pulls his drawer, which there was a revolver is the he climax of the story, and it also is the most important event in the story. The falling action of the story is, when the dentist said to his son to tell the mayor to come and kill him (Marquez, One of these days , 1962), and the moment mayor enters the door, and looks at the mayor who has been suffering severe toothache for five days and is desperate, he closes the drawer. However, he removes the infected wisdom tooth, without anesthesia just to make the mayor suffer (Marquez, One of these days , 1962). When the dentist pulls his tooth out, the mayor’s job has gotten what he wanted, before he needed the Escovar to help him but the time his job was done the mayor acted like the dentist didn’t even

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