In what moment in "Aguantando" by Junot Diaz does the narrator experience the most significant change? What details, quotes and insights help you to understand this change? How is it that the author changes?
Aguantando is filled with many small moments that bring significant change. At the end of the story, the narrator and his family take a trip to the city. This is dedicated to recreation, but also is out of the way for his mother. "We couldn't afford it, but she paid for the movie anyway." While on this small trip, a man begins to flirt with the narrators mother. He fails, giving a fun moment to her family. After, the mother tells her children that this is the spot where her and her husband first met: "Your father asked me if I wanted a cigarette, and then he gave me the whole pack to show me he was a big man. I held on the rail. Here? Oh no, she said. She turned around and looked over the traffic. That part of the city isn't here anymore." The moment brings a meloncholy change. The narrator has been given a bit of a glimpse into his mother's history with his father: he has suddenly realized that he was a good man to her in the begining of their relationship, and was dedicated to winning her heart. However, the part of the city is now gone. The piece of him that existed in the family's life exists, but isn't present. This moment shows a sudden change: the narrator has lost hope.
When the narrator is waiting for Papi to come around, I noticed a change in tone. It seems that the hope inside the narrator gets smaller and smaller as time elapses and Papi does not arrive home. "Mami served dinner, watched as we ate it, and then ordered us back into our room." It seems that time is passing with no excitement or happiness.
Another big clue that shows the change is the way the relationship between Mami and the narrator changes. From the beginning you realize how close Yunior is with his mom because of the close details he observes about her. You can tell he really admires her with the meticulous details. When the family hears from the father, the connection they have seems to be cut off. After they hear from the father, there is a great deal of tension between the family members.
When the family decides to take a vacation, it seems that the tension is removed. With the memories the mother is sharing, it makes everyone realize how lucky they are to have a father like that who is coming back into their lives. "I would see him coming from my trees. A man with swinging hands and eyes like mine. He'd have gold on his fingers, cologne on his neck." This image is like the perfect man he wants his father to be, and with the stories that he has heard from his mother, I feel like he believes that this is who his father will be.
I think the moment that Yunior changes the most is when he is nine and he learns that his father has made many promises to come back to his mother but has always broken them. Up until that point he idolizes his father. He dreams about his father coming home very rich and popular. “I would see him coming from my trees. A man with swinging hands and eyes like mine. He’d have gold on his fingers, cologne on his neck, a silk shirt, good leather shoes.” He dreams about his family getting back together and the ways his father will woo his mother back in. I think the biggest change in Yunior is the loss of innocence. In the beginning he is an affectionate little boy who dreams of his father coming home. By the end he has regained some of his mother’s love but no longer believes that one day his family will be perfectly reunited. At the end of the story he knows that “ this waiting for him was all a sham.”
I think Yunior associates his father coming home with his life becoming perfect. When he learns that his father has promised to come and not shown many times before he is heartbroken but he also grows up. The author starts using more mature language and he seems to have a rougher outlook on the world. When he learns that his father will probably never come back he loses a lot of his hope for the future but he also learns to accept his surroundings.
Aguantando is a story of hope. It tells about a boy who has never seen is father and is going through difficult times.“I would see him coming from my trees. A man with swinging hands and eyes like mine. He’d have gold on his fingers, cologne on his neck, a silk shirt, good leather shoes.” He tries to be hopeful but hope is dwindling. he has to stay with relatives until his mother can make ends meet. Everyone is on edge and has a lot of tension when the mother decides to take a trip they can't afford. when the mother of the main character's mother is flirted with the mother decides to tell a story of how the father came on as a big willy when he handed he a pack of cigarettes instead of one like she asked. when asked if the location was near and the mom responded with that part of the town doesn't exist anymore. this like Kira said is when all hope was lost.
So the ultimate character switch was hope to no hope.
In Aguantando the narrator feels the most significant change when s/he was shipped off to her Aunt Miranda. At this point of the story it stops being an introduction to the story. Before this s/he is describing her life and small moments. However, when s/he describes this moment as, "real flojo," and tries to pass it off like any other moment. It is different because she portrays his/her mother as weak and fragile. Before she was portrayed as nice and strong. The narrator's realization is the biggest change in the story. The author matures and s/he He also realizes how his/her older brother is also more mature and s/he knows this. S/he said, "I never wanted to be away from the family." This experience helps s/he prepare for the future and accept certain changes.
In "Aguantando", I think that the narrator introduces a completely different mood when he is in his room with Rafa and Rafa and the narrator talk, "Papi says he's coming. Really? Don't believe it. Why? It ain't the first time he's made that promise, Yunior." This moment sets a whole different tone onto the story where a heavy truth is realized to the reader. Before this moment, the story was light and had a specific amusing tone to it. This part was the first moment something was said in a serious, significant manner. After this conversation, the narrator explains how his father had once promised to come and didn't and how that affected him and his family, especially his mother. What stood out to me as the actual most significant change he's experienced is when he described how after his mother came back after five mysterious weeks she had gone away, they never became as close again. "She didn't treat me badly on her return but we were no longer as close; she did not call me her Prieto or bring me chocolates from her work. That seemed to suit her fine." I think this change is most significant because there is a huge difference in his tone here rather than the way he talked about his mother before. You can sense how hurt he secretly felt or still feels. What especially stood out to me in that paragraph was when he said "That seemed to suit her fine." As if not only had they grown apart but the mother almost wanted them to grow apart. After this scene, it feels like he doesn't feel as connected with his mother anymore. As if once he let out what had happened and how he felt about it, his mother became a more distant character. He doesn't talk about her as much or give as specific information and detail to her as he did before.
In my opinion the most significant change that Yunior experiences is when he is young and h wants to see his father’s picture, but his mother wouldn't let him. She was so stressed that she needed to go to Ocoa to get away from the craziness. When she gets back after five weeks and she and Yunior aren't nearly as close as they were before. "She's gone, he said. So cry all you want malcriado. I learned later from Rafa that she was in Ocoa with our tios...She didn't treat me badly on her return but we were no longer as close; she did not call me her Prieto or bring me chocolates from her work. That seemed to suit her fine. And I was Young enough to grow out of her rejection. I still had baseball and my brother. I still had trees to climb and lizards to tear apart."
From this quote it is obvious that Yunior and his mother didn't hate each other after their little fight, but they were not as close. I think the relationship between Yunior and his mother is significant because the way that it is described in the beginning of "Aguantando" is in such a way that it seems Yunior and his mother are best friends. So now, at the end of the story, we learn that they weren’t always this friendly to one another and that they were closer at one point. (It is too complicated to do accents on my computer, so forgive me when I spell tios without the accent.)
I think that the narrator feels the most change after his mother starts running into problems around the issue of their fathers absence. After she goes to visit the narrator's tios she comes back less friendly. The narrator and his mother start to separate, she starts to push him away more and is not as loving and caring as she used to be, she starts to concentrate more on work and I think this is a big change that the narrator has to go through. He has to learn to be more independent and less reliant on his mother because she will not always be there.
The big moment of change for the narrator is when his mother leaves after having received the first letter from her husband in the USA. It is a change in character marked by a different treatment from his mother. When she returns, he says “She didn’t treat me badly on her return but we were no longer as close; she did not call me her Prieto or bring me chocolates from her work.” This shows that the narrator acknowledges that a different relationship with his mother has come to pass; and he consoles himself from her ‘rejection’, by saying “I still had baseball and my brother, I still had trees to climb and lizards to tear apart.” This is not the only time the narrator passes through changes in the story. However, this one was significant because it was a change with someone present and real in his life. His father is nothing more than a fading picture, around which he builds fantasies. In the passage, prior to his mother’s departure, when he narrates his tantrum over the picture of his father, one can almost feel that the narrator blames himself for his mother’s breakdown; especially when his abuelo tells him “She’s gone, he said. So cry all you all you want, malcriado.”
In “Aguantando” the narrator experiences the most significant change when his mother is forced to take a vacation from her life. This symbolizes that not only is his mother unable to seek a better life for him but also that she has given up hope. The person in the world that loves him most has given up on him and his family, and while he may not understand this he notices the subtle changes in his life. His mother no longer brings him chocolate and she no longer calls him by his childish nickname, both of which symbolizes the end of his childhood. He is forced to grow up, but he is still fundamentally a child and while this may seem like a story about maturing to adulthood the narrator of “Aguantando” is a child. Like other children, he still climbs trees, plays with lizards, and does not understand his life. Yet, most of all, he still has a childish hope, which sets him apart from the rest of his family. This story is not just about growing up or the loss of hope—it is about how hope is what makes a child an outsider in his own family.
I think the biggest change happened when Yunior's mother goes away for 5 weeks. She comes back skinner, tanner, hands beaten up, and looking younger. If I had to take a guess at where she was I would say she had being working endlessly. The looking younger does not quite tie into that however, but it could mean having a break from her husbands stress took years off of her. The language becomes less casual and more solemn sounding. He points out that he and his mother aren't close anymore and it makes you wonder about what she was doing out there. I was suprised when Yunior didn't complain about missing his mother when she was away for 5 weeks. In the past we know he didn't like the idea of going away for two weeks. I dont know if he grew up or something else, but Yunior changed
In "Aguantando," I think that the narrator comes across a lot of changes. But the most significant one to me would be when Mami gets a letter from Papi saying that he is coming back to get them. Everyone probably got really excited then. He learns that Papi doesn't keep his promises because once before, he had said that he was coming to get them and take them to the city but he never came back. Mami set up a whole party for him; invited many people, bought new clothes for the kids, bought a goat to slaughter but he didn't show up. Rafa told Yunior not to believe that this was happening because Papi made promises to the family before. The narrator always wanted the family to be reunited but it never happens. He wished that his father would come back for them being rich, nice looking and well-liked. He has been living in a poor world all his life, dreaming for one day, his father would come back and rescue his family from their living conditions and bring them back to a new, nicer world.
The narrator has always had a dream to hold on to throughout his father's absence. After him realizing that he wouldn't come back, he let go of that dream. He knew that if he kept believing, it would end up not happening as it did in the past. The change was from believing and hope, to nothing at all. He couldn't handle another disappointment from his father. He wanted to believe, but couldn't.
Like many stories we have examined, Aguantando is a moving tale about a young boy who barely has any interactions with his father, consider that the two are separated by contents. The mother, finds it sometimes difficult to cope with the fact that her husband is in the United States. The mother and narrator of this story, like many have addressed, are close at first, with evidence such as her sharing stories about her love life with him. I believe that a significant change for the narrator and family is when tension starts to rise when Mami wants to go on an unemconomical trip to the states. Agreeing with kj, I believe that the change may not have beenthr best, but had a realistic take on life.
The most significant moment in "Aguantando" was when the narrator is recalling his memory of the first time his father said he was coming back to live with them. His mom planned a huge party and invited all of her friends and family, but when he didn't show up, she went into a state of depression. During that thime, the narrators relationship with their mom became weaker.
In "Aguantando" I think that the moment that the narrator experiences the most significant signs of change, at the very end of the story when Yunior is describing what he imagines it to be like when his father comes.
"He'd kiss Mami and Rafa and shake Abuelo's reluctant hand and then he'd see me behind everyone else. What's wrong with that one? he'd ask and Mami would say, he doesn't know you. Squatting down so that his pale yellow dress socks showed, he'd trace the scars on my arms and on my head. Yunior, he'd finally say, his stubbled face in front of mine, his thumbs tracing a circle on my cheek.
In most of the story, the narrator was talking about himself, and his family's life in almost a humorous and light way. He was talking about his father leaving him, in a way that made it seem like his didn't really care that his father had left, and that he hadn't seen him for such a long time. However, in the end of the story, the last paragraph showed that even though he was pretending to not care about his dad, he really did, and he probably thought about what the moment when he met him was going to be like a lot.
The author seems to grow, from the beginning to the end of the story. In the beginning, the story seems to be written where the narrator is looking at life in almost a playful matter and like his life is care free and he has almost no worries. In the end of the story, the writing get's a little more deep and you really see the narrator's true emotions.
One of the most significant changes in character for the narrator in “Aguantando” occurs near the end of the story where the narrator admits being emotionally close to his father, though he has no recollection of him. This acknowledgement of the narrator is in stark contrast with the plot of the story, which greatly revolves around the narrator’s lack of understanding towards the role of his father in his familial sphere. Though much of the poverty his family is engulfed in is a result of his father’s negligence, the narrator does not seem to be aware his father actually exists .It is because the narrator gives more human qualities to his father that he is able to visualize his father as upposed to staring at photographs. The concept of a father also seems to inspire new hope in the narrator as the tone of the story shifts from being bleak and full of dark humor to being more upbeat with a quality of childlike naivete when the narrator imagines meeting his father for the first time.
For "Aguantando", I believe the narrator's most significant change is the changing of distance between him and his mother. It jumps from the moment where he basically goes crazy over his father to his mother's sudden disappearance. And he seems fully aware and insightful about his mothers distance from himself, "She didn't treat me badly on her return, but we were no longer as close." He lists her past endearments, but does not seem heartbroken by it. While his mother is the biggest figure in his life, he is overly possessed by his yearning for his father.
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Aguantando is filled with many small moments that bring significant change. At the end of the story, the narrator and his family take a trip to the city. This is dedicated to recreation, but also is out of the way for his mother. "We couldn't afford it, but she paid for the movie anyway." While on this small trip, a man begins to flirt with the narrators mother. He fails, giving a fun moment to her family. After, the mother tells her children that this is the spot where her and her husband first met:
"Your father asked me if I wanted a cigarette, and then he gave me the whole pack to show me he was a big man.
I held on the rail. Here?
Oh no, she said. She turned around and looked over the traffic. That part of the city isn't here anymore."
The moment brings a meloncholy change. The narrator has been given a bit of a glimpse into his mother's history with his father: he has suddenly realized that he was a good man to her in the begining of their relationship, and was dedicated to winning her heart. However, the part of the city is now gone. The piece of him that existed in the family's life exists, but isn't present. This moment shows a sudden change: the narrator has lost hope.
When the narrator is waiting for Papi to come around, I noticed a change in tone. It seems that the hope inside the narrator gets smaller and smaller as time elapses and Papi does not arrive home. "Mami served dinner, watched as we ate it, and then ordered us back into our room." It seems that time is passing with no excitement or happiness.
Another big clue that shows the change is the way the relationship between Mami and the narrator changes. From the beginning you realize how close Yunior is with his mom because of the close details he observes about her. You can tell he really admires her with the meticulous details. When the family hears from the father, the connection they have seems to be cut off. After they hear from the father, there is a great deal of tension between the family members.
When the family decides to take a vacation, it seems that the tension is removed. With the memories the mother is sharing, it makes everyone realize how lucky they are to have a father like that who is coming back into their lives. "I would see him coming from my trees. A man with swinging hands and eyes like mine. He'd have gold on his fingers, cologne on his neck." This image is like the perfect man he wants his father to be, and with the stories that he has heard from his mother, I feel like he believes that this is who his father will be.
I think the moment that Yunior changes the most is when he is nine and he learns that his father has made many promises to come back to his mother but has always broken them. Up until that point he idolizes his father. He dreams about his father coming home very rich and popular. “I would see him coming from my trees. A man with swinging hands and eyes like mine. He’d have gold on his fingers, cologne on his neck, a silk shirt, good leather shoes.” He dreams about his family getting back together and the ways his father will woo his mother back in. I think the biggest change in Yunior is the loss of innocence. In the beginning he is an affectionate little boy who dreams of his father coming home. By the end he has regained some of his mother’s love but no longer believes that one day his family will be perfectly reunited. At the end of the story he knows that “ this waiting for him was all a sham.”
I think Yunior associates his father coming home with his life becoming perfect. When he learns that his father has promised to come and not shown many times before he is heartbroken but he also grows up. The author starts using more mature language and he seems to have a rougher outlook on the world. When he learns that his father will probably never come back he loses a lot of his hope for the future but he also learns to accept his surroundings.
Aguantando is a story of hope. It tells about a boy who has never seen is father and is going through difficult times.“I would see him coming from my trees. A man with swinging hands and eyes like mine. He’d have gold on his fingers, cologne on his neck, a silk shirt, good leather shoes.” He tries to be hopeful but hope is dwindling. he has to stay with relatives until his mother can make ends meet. Everyone is on edge and has a lot of tension when the mother decides to take a trip they can't afford. when the mother of the main character's mother is flirted with the mother decides to tell a story of how the father came on as a big willy when he handed he a pack of cigarettes instead of one like she asked. when asked if the location was near and the mom responded with that part of the town doesn't exist anymore. this like Kira said is when all hope was lost.
So the ultimate character switch was hope to no hope.
In Aguantando the narrator feels the most significant change when s/he was shipped off to her Aunt Miranda. At this point of the story it stops being an introduction to the story. Before this s/he is describing her life and small moments. However, when s/he describes this moment as, "real flojo," and tries to pass it off like any other moment. It is different because she portrays his/her mother as weak and fragile. Before she was portrayed as nice and strong. The narrator's realization is the biggest change in the story. The author matures and s/he He also realizes how his/her older brother is also more mature and s/he knows this. S/he said, "I never wanted to be away from the family." This experience helps s/he prepare for the future and accept certain changes.
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In "Aguantando", I think that the narrator introduces a completely different mood when he is in his room with Rafa and Rafa and the narrator talk, "Papi says he's coming. Really? Don't believe it. Why? It ain't the first time he's made that promise, Yunior." This moment sets a whole different tone onto the story where a heavy truth is realized to the reader. Before this moment, the story was light and had a specific amusing tone to it. This part was the first moment something was said in a serious, significant manner. After this conversation, the narrator explains how his father had once promised to come and didn't and how that affected him and his family, especially his mother. What stood out to me as the actual most significant change he's experienced is when he described how after his mother came back after five mysterious weeks she had gone away, they never became as close again. "She didn't treat me badly on her return but we were no longer as close; she did not call me her Prieto or bring me chocolates from her work. That seemed to suit her fine." I think this change is most significant because there is a huge difference in his tone here rather than the way he talked about his mother before. You can sense how hurt he secretly felt or still feels. What especially stood out to me in that paragraph was when he said "That seemed to suit her fine." As if not only had they grown apart but the mother almost wanted them to grow apart. After this scene, it feels like he doesn't feel as connected with his mother anymore. As if once he let out what had happened and how he felt about it, his mother became a more distant character. He doesn't talk about her as much or give as specific information and detail to her as he did before.
In my opinion the most significant change that Yunior experiences is when he is young and h wants to see his father’s picture, but his mother wouldn't let him. She was so stressed that she needed to go to Ocoa to get away from the craziness. When she gets back after five weeks and she and Yunior aren't nearly as close as they were before. "She's gone, he said. So cry all you want malcriado. I learned later from Rafa that she was in Ocoa with our tios...She didn't treat me badly on her return but we were no longer as close; she did not call me her Prieto or bring me chocolates from her work. That seemed to suit her fine. And I was Young enough to grow out of her rejection. I still had baseball and my brother. I still had trees to climb and lizards to tear apart."
From this quote it is obvious that Yunior and his mother didn't hate each other after their little fight, but they were not as close. I think the relationship between Yunior and his mother is significant because the way that it is described in the beginning of "Aguantando" is in such a way that it seems Yunior and his mother are best friends. So now, at the end of the story, we learn that they weren’t always this friendly to one another and that they were closer at one point.
(It is too complicated to do accents on my computer, so forgive me when I spell tios without the accent.)
-Kai Marcel
I think that the narrator feels the most change after his mother starts running into problems around the issue of their fathers absence. After she goes to visit the narrator's tios she comes back less friendly. The narrator and his mother start to separate, she starts to push him away more and is not as loving and caring as she used to be, she starts to concentrate more on work and I think this is a big change that the narrator has to go through. He has to learn to be more independent and less reliant on his mother because she will not always be there.
The big moment of change for the narrator is when his mother leaves after having received the first letter from her husband in the USA. It is a change in character marked by a different treatment from his mother. When she returns, he says “She didn’t treat me badly on her return but we were no longer as close; she did not call me her Prieto or bring me chocolates from her work.” This shows that the narrator acknowledges that a different relationship with his mother has come to pass; and he consoles himself from her ‘rejection’, by saying “I still had baseball and my brother, I still had trees to climb and lizards to tear apart.” This is not the only time the narrator passes through changes in the story. However, this one was significant because it was a change with someone present and real in his life. His father is nothing more than a fading picture, around which he builds fantasies. In the passage, prior to his mother’s departure, when he narrates his tantrum over the picture of his father, one can almost feel that the narrator blames himself for his mother’s breakdown; especially when his abuelo tells him “She’s gone, he said. So cry all you all you want, malcriado.”
In “Aguantando” the narrator experiences the most significant change when his mother is forced to take a vacation from her life. This symbolizes that not only is his mother unable to seek a better life for him but also that she has given up hope. The person in the world that loves him most has given up on him and his family, and while he may not understand this he notices the subtle changes in his life. His mother no longer brings him chocolate and she no longer calls him by his childish nickname, both of which symbolizes the end of his childhood. He is forced to grow up, but he is still fundamentally a child and while this may seem like a story about maturing to adulthood the narrator of “Aguantando” is a child. Like other children, he still climbs trees, plays with lizards, and does not understand his life. Yet, most of all, he still has a childish hope, which sets him apart from the rest of his family. This story is not just about growing up or the loss of hope—it is about how hope is what makes a child an outsider in his own family.
I think the biggest change happened when Yunior's mother goes away for 5 weeks. She comes back skinner, tanner, hands beaten up, and looking younger. If I had to take a guess at where she was I would say she had being working endlessly. The looking younger does not quite tie into that however, but it could mean having a break from her husbands stress took years off of her. The language becomes less casual and more solemn sounding. He points out that he and his mother aren't close anymore and it makes you wonder about what she was doing out there. I was suprised when Yunior didn't complain about missing his mother when she was away for 5 weeks. In the past we know he didn't like the idea of going away for two weeks. I dont know if he grew up or something else, but Yunior changed
In "Aguantando," I think that the narrator comes across a lot of changes. But the most significant one to me would be when Mami gets a letter from Papi saying that he is coming back to get them. Everyone probably got really excited then. He learns that Papi doesn't keep his promises because once before, he had said that he was coming to get them and take them to the city but he never came back. Mami set up a whole party for him; invited many people, bought new clothes for the kids, bought a goat to slaughter but he didn't show up. Rafa told Yunior not to believe that this was happening because Papi made promises to the family before. The narrator always wanted the family to be reunited but it never happens. He wished that his father would come back for them being rich, nice looking and well-liked. He has been living in a poor world all his life, dreaming for one day, his father would come back and rescue his family from their living conditions and bring them back to a new, nicer world.
The narrator has always had a dream to hold on to throughout his father's absence. After him realizing that he wouldn't come back, he let go of that dream. He knew that if he kept believing, it would end up not happening as it did in the past. The change was from believing and hope, to nothing at all. He couldn't handle another disappointment from his father. He wanted to believe, but couldn't.
Like many stories we have examined, Aguantando is a moving tale about a young boy who barely has any interactions with his father, consider that the two are separated by contents. The mother, finds it sometimes difficult to cope with the fact that her husband is in the United States. The mother and narrator of this story, like many have addressed, are close at first, with evidence such as her sharing stories about her love life with him. I believe that a significant change for the narrator and family is when tension starts to rise when Mami wants to go on an unemconomical trip to the states. Agreeing with kj, I believe that the change may not have beenthr best, but had a realistic take on life.
The most significant moment in "Aguantando" was when the narrator is recalling his memory of the first time his father said he was coming back to live with them. His mom planned a huge party and invited all of her friends and family, but when he didn't show up, she went into a state of depression. During that thime, the narrators relationship with their mom became weaker.
In "Aguantando" I think that the moment that the narrator experiences the most significant signs of change, at the very end of the story when Yunior is describing what he imagines it to be like when his father comes.
"He'd kiss Mami and Rafa and shake Abuelo's reluctant hand and then he'd see me behind everyone else. What's wrong with that one? he'd ask and Mami would say, he doesn't know you. Squatting down so that his pale yellow dress socks showed, he'd trace the scars on my arms and on my head. Yunior, he'd finally say, his stubbled face in front of mine, his thumbs tracing a circle on my cheek.
In most of the story, the narrator was talking about himself, and his family's life in almost a humorous and light way. He was talking about his father leaving him, in a way that made it seem like his didn't really care that his father had left, and that he hadn't seen him for such a long time. However, in the end of the story, the last paragraph showed that even though he was pretending to not care about his dad, he really did, and he probably thought about what the moment when he met him was going to be like a lot.
The author seems to grow, from the beginning to the end of the story. In the beginning, the story seems to be written where the narrator is looking at life in almost a playful matter and like his life is care free and he has almost no worries. In the end of the story, the writing get's a little more deep and you really see the narrator's true emotions.
One of the most significant changes in character for the narrator in “Aguantando” occurs near the end of the story where the narrator admits being emotionally close to his father, though he has no recollection of him. This acknowledgement of the narrator is in stark contrast with the plot of the story, which greatly revolves around the narrator’s lack of understanding towards the role of his father in his familial sphere. Though much of the poverty his family is engulfed in is a result of his father’s negligence, the narrator does not seem to be aware his father actually exists .It is because the narrator gives more human qualities to his father that he is able to visualize his father as upposed to staring at photographs. The concept of a father also seems to inspire new hope in the narrator as the tone of the story shifts from being bleak and full of dark humor to being more upbeat with a quality of childlike naivete when the narrator imagines meeting his father for the first time.
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For "Aguantando", I believe the narrator's most significant change is the changing of distance between him and his mother. It jumps from the moment where he basically goes crazy over his father to his mother's sudden disappearance. And he seems fully aware and insightful about his mothers distance from himself, "She didn't treat me badly on her return, but we were no longer as close." He lists her past endearments, but does not seem heartbroken by it. While his mother is the biggest figure in his life, he is overly possessed by his yearning for his father.
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