“Just lather‚ that’s all” retrieves Elements Plot * Introduction: A man walks into a barber shop. Once the barber recognizes the customer he becomes anxious. The man removes his military attire and prepares for his shave. * Rising action: the barber and the still mysterious man start to talk about the Characters * The barber: the barber is the protagonist of the story. He is secretly a rebel who retaliates against Captain Torres. He is a man who has impeccable morals and holds
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the hinges to his destiny. In the end the Barber’s decision to spare Torres’ life impacted him discovering that Torres had a secret of his own. ‘Just Lather That’s All’ displays Everywhere we look we see people suffering‚ kids with cancer‚ brain damage‚ or even something as little as a sore throat. Each of these situations are different yet they are all similar. In each of these circumstances the community is there to love‚ help and support. Over that last bit of time this is what I have been focusing
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Just Lather‚ That’s All Heather Radtke ENG2D Mr. Langevin Holy Trinity Catholic Secondary School 19/09/2013 In hopes character description on Captain Torres in the short story “Just Lather‚ That’s All”‚ got straight to the point‚ used examples that went with her descriptions‚ and knew what the theme was of the story. Hope got to the point of the story a lot faster than I did in my opinion piece‚ which made hers a lot more precise then my own. She also wrote
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In the short story‚ Just Lather‚ That’s All‚ the author Hernando Téllez addresses the importance of making moral decisions. The barber‚ the protagonist‚ wishes to do his job honourably and he weighs his options - when deciding to kill Captain Torres. The barber ponders “Murder or hero? […] But I don’t want to be a murder. You came for a shave. And I perform my work honourably… I don’t want blood on my hands. […] Each person has his own place in the scheme of things”(51). The barber looks if his
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Just Lather‚ That’s All Analyzation The short story by Hernando Tellez called “Just Lather‚ That’s All is an epic battle of good vs. evil‚ or right against wrong. This is a battle going on between the protagonist and the antagonist‚ but the battle that I am referring to takes place inside of the mind of the main character. This paper discusses the plot‚ the entertainment style‚ the relationship between plot and character‚ and how the story is structured. This story is written in the
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“Just lather that’s all” has strong ties towards the world past and current. My topic for critical connections assignment is “Are morals more important than what is best?”. This theme in just lather that’s all can be seen in WWII when American and British armies would choose whether they would bomb German concentration camps and the trains leading to them. As this would stop Germans from killing them by concentration camps and give a chance for prisoners to escape and stop delivery of prisoners to
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Just Lather‚ That’s All: principles vs. actions In Hernando Tellez’s Just Lather‚ That’s All; despite given the opportunity to greatly help the revolutionists‚ the Barber cannot murder Captain Torres because the act goes against his moral beliefs. Even killing an evil man is beyond his personal principles. On the other hand‚ Captain Torres is more than capable of killing the Barber‚ but his arrogance prevents him. His intentional provocation of the Barber tests the revolutionist; he knows the potential
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The description of Just Lather‚ That’s All by Hernan do Tellez makes the setting more believable. The author is able to use descriptive language too effectively to describe the weather‚ the auditory and the imagery sense. Tellez used auditory imagery to express the thought of the barber. As the barber went back and forth contemplating weather to kill Captain Torres‚ the barber thought‚ “I could cut his throat just so- zip‚ zip” (Tellez 50). The barber relationship with Captain Torres is an unstable
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ust Do It Already! The Barber in “Just Lather‚ That’s All” should have killed the general when he had the chance‚ and become the martyr the town desperately needed. Sitting in the chair‚ The Barber “never had him so close” (Yates 1). The opportunity to have someone so deplorable and universally hated by the village within his grasp presented an opportunity that was extremely rare‚ and demanded a swift‚ direct response. The Barber was a rebel‚ and here was his chance to support the rebellion
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In the short story “Just Lather‚ That’s All”‚ all three types of irony are presented. The first irony I noticed was verbal irony. In the text it says “A man of imagination‚ because who else would have thought of hanging the naked rebels and then holding target practice on their bodies?” which is an example of verbal irony. This means that what is said is not what is actually meant. As readers‚ we know that the barber is a rebel himself and Captain Torres is his enemy. Torres is hunting down the rebels
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