Make Judgements - How does Don Anselmo's sense of duty and honor conflict with the narrator's? Who is right? On what basis can you make that decision?
I think that Don Anselmo is right. The reason for that is because firstly, the narrator asked to buy the land, but he never went into details about what he was about to buy. Therefore if there was any fault, it would be his for not inquiring the properties of the land or about the land itself, for he only talked about doubling the price of the land and trying to convince Don Anselmo to take the option. Secondly, Don Anselmo had a sense of duty and honor because the trees were not his, so if he did sell them because it was on his land, he would lose his duty of keeping the trees there for his descendants, which will make him a not very honorable man, and we did not know that until the very end when he explained about how his mother and himself had planted a tree for a child, and how the orchard belonged to the children of the village. The narrator never asked of the trees, so there was no reason for Don Anselmo to answer it, for it did not belong to him anyway. So overall, Don Anselmo was right for not saying what he could have said at the beginning.
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010
"Gentleman of Rio en Medio" - Literary Focus Question #7 ♥
Make Judgements - How does Don Anselmo's sense of duty and honor conflict with the narrator's? Who is right? On what basis can you make that decision?
I think that Don Anselmo is right. The reason for that is because firstly, the narrator asked to buy the land, but he never went into details about what he was about to buy. Therefore if there was any fault, it would be his for not inquiring the properties of the land or about the land itself, for he only talked about doubling the price of the land and trying to convince Don Anselmo to take the option. Secondly, Don Anselmo had a sense of duty and honor because the trees were not his, so if he did sell them because it was on his land, he would lose his duty of keeping the trees there for his descendants, which will make him a not very honorable man, and we did not know that until the very end when he explained about how his mother and himself had planted a tree for a child, and how the orchard belonged to the children of the village. The narrator never asked of the trees, so there was no reason for Don Anselmo to answer it, for it did not belong to him anyway. So overall, Don Anselmo was right for not saying what he could have said at the beginning.
-xoxo-
I think that Don Anselmo is right. The reason for that is because firstly, the narrator asked to buy the land, but he never went into details about what he was about to buy. Therefore if there was any fault, it would be his for not inquiring the properties of the land or about the land itself, for he only talked about doubling the price of the land and trying to convince Don Anselmo to take the option. Secondly, Don Anselmo had a sense of duty and honor because the trees were not his, so if he did sell them because it was on his land, he would lose his duty of keeping the trees there for his descendants, which will make him a not very honorable man, and we did not know that until the very end when he explained about how his mother and himself had planted a tree for a child, and how the orchard belonged to the children of the village. The narrator never asked of the trees, so there was no reason for Don Anselmo to answer it, for it did not belong to him anyway. So overall, Don Anselmo was right for not saying what he could have said at the beginning.
-xoxo-
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