The Slaughter House

The Slaughter House by Esteban Echeverria is a story about a slaughter house where plenty of injustice and cruelty occur. Echeverria uses a lot of symbolism to describe what he saw going on in Argentina. He likens the Federalist to butchers and Unitarians to wild animals. Echeverria is telling a story of all of the crimes committed by the Argentinian government in the 1630’s. He metaphorically compares the atrocities committed against innocent people to a lawless butcher shop. Since the story takes place during Lent, meat was forbidden except for the children and the sick. However the Federalists were the ones eating the meat. The Unitarian that is attacked and killed by the federalists is not given a name to show how the federalists didn’t even treat the Unitarians as people but just as wicked things that must be taken down. Also the way the execution of the Unitarian took place right after the bull was slaughtered perhaps symbolizes the way that innocent people were killed…as just another animal. Echeverria demonstrates the inhumane story of how oppressing and brutalizing the dictating powers were during that period in time in his home country of Argentina.

The Slaughter House by Esteban Echeverria is a story about a slaughter house where plenty of injustice and cruelty occur. Echeverria uses a lot of symbolism to describe what he saw going on in Argentina. He likens the Federalist to butchers and Unitarians to wild animals. Echeverria is telling a story of all of the crimes committed by the Argentinian government in the 1630’s. He metaphorically compares the atrocities committed against innocent people to a lawless butcher shop. Since the story takes place during Lent, meat was forbidden except for the children and the sick. However the Federalists were the ones eating the meat. The Unitarian that is attacked and killed by the federalists is not given a name to show how the federalists didn’t even treat the Unitarians as people but just as wicked