An old woman and her twelve years old daughter, both in mourning clothes, are riding through banana plantations in the third class of section of a train. It is extremely hot and the air is heavy. They get on the train at 11:00 am and get off at 2:00 pm in a little town. While they are on the train, they eat their lunch. As they approach the town, they straighten their clothes and make themselves presentable. It is siesta time in town. Everything is closed, and people are home eating their lunches and taking naps. The mother and daughter walk in the shade of buildings and tress, and soon arrive at their destination, the priest’s home. The woman scratches the door until the house keeper opens it. The mother insists on seeing the priest, even though it is siesta. Finally the mother and her daughter are allowed to enter the house. The housekeeper is persuaded to get the priest; he says that they should come back at three. The woman refuses as the train leaves at 3:30pm. At last the priest comes out. The mother wants the key to the cemetery to visit her son’s grave. Her son is a thief who was killed in this town a week ago. The priest fills out the page in the key registry with the information the mother gives him. The week before, the son, Carlos Centeno Ayala, had tried to break into a lonely window’s house. She was terrified, took an old gun, aimed it, fired, and killed the thief. The priest asked the mother if she had to straighten out her son. Her answer was a good man and did what he had to do to take care of his family. She accepted his being thief because when was a boxer, he was hurt very often. His pain was more hurtful to his than his stealing. The priest gives them a key and the directions to Carlos’ grave. He notices that people from the town have gathered outside his house. He tries to encourage the mother to go out the side door. She refuses. She takes her daughter’s hand and goes out the way she come in.
The character in the in the Tuesday siesta is n old woman, maybe she is in 58 years of age and a 14 year old girl. They were riding through banana plantation in the third class section of a train. An old woman seemed feel in hurts that’s why she is very serious. They maybe wear a black dress because it said here they are going to her son’s grave. They bring also flowers to put in son’s grave. What if they ride a taxi? Maybe they would feel comfortable. They can sit well and feel so good because of the air conditioned. The next character was the priest, he was an old too, and he is wearing his eyeglasses and rosary necklace. I think he is a good priest because he gives the wish of an old woman. The priest housekeeper was the first who entertain the old woman and the 14 year old girl. Maybe he is a the age of 30 years old. The last character was Carlos Centeno Ayala. It’s not told in the story if how old he is but I think he is 25 years old. It told here that she is a boxer, but her mother was not able like his career, she is worried that her son was hurt. Carlos Centeno Ayala was also a thief. He is dies because her mother killed him through an old gun. The plot or flow of the story was good at first an old woman and a twelve year old girl was riding through banana plantation train. It is extremely hot there. They feel uncomfortable. What if they ride a taxi? Maybe they would feel comfortable and maybe they can sleep for a while. Perhaps it is quite expensive in transportation but it is worth for them because their destination was quite far. But it is said in the story that they are poor. So I understand them why they ride a train. When they reach their destination they fixed themselves first before they get off in the train. Since it is rest time. People in town are in their houses, eating and resting. When they reach the priest home, the mother knock the door but it is still time of the priest to rest. The woman forces the housekeeper to see and talk the priest. Then the priest comes and they talk. They talked about her son’s place of grave. Then she tells to the priest about what had really happen of her son’s death. It was very sad because she is the one who killed her own son. But why she killed him? Maybe that night he wants to enter in their home but the old woman thinks that the man outside their house was a thief or anybody else who will have a bad intention to her or maybe she thinks that she would be killing by that person. Her son was a boxer. Why she let her son stops this thing? What if he continues this? Maybe he would be discovered like Manny pacquiao, and he will become one of the famous boxers in the world rather than he would be a thief. Stealing other people things is not good. It’s shameful. There are many good ways on how to help a family but not become a thief. But why the old woman ride train before they get on her son’s grave? Maybe she ‘go other place to forget what had happen to her son or maybe there is no cemetery there in their place that’s why it took an hours to reach the cemetery. I don’t really understand the point of view of the writer in Tuesday siesta. It’s seemed complicated for me. Maybe the writer would like to see if how the reader can understand the story even though it seemed complicated. He would like to inform us if how important our dignity is. In this situation, it is very hard for the reader on how to cope up with the given situation. He wants to inform us how important the relationship of the mother and her children. The mother should be the one will guide their son/daughter in a good way. Because the mother is always concerned to her children’s life and she don’t want to put them in harm. I feel so in the story. I don’t see any happiness in this story. In the first paragraph seemed sad until I read the whole story. I feel sad because the mother killed her own son. But I can’t blame her. She only protects herself from any harm. Because of her own wrong thinking she don’t know it was her son outside. I know how she really feels. She feels so bad, sad disappointed, angry by herself, embarrass and hate. The place was so sad too because its siesta time, and the place was so quite it seemed that they also mourn to her son’s death. I think she would regret it with her life forever. Her son died because of her. I feel so disappointed to the mother. Why she let her son to become thief if there is many job to find and to survive. She doesn’t think the fact that being a thief is a big sin, especially from God. She is not a good mother in fact she is a selfish person.
The character in the in the Tuesday siesta is n old woman, maybe she is in 58 years of age and a 14 year old girl. They were riding through banana plantation in the third class section of a train. An old woman seemed feel in hurts that’s why she is very serious. They maybe wear a black dress because it said here they are going to her son’s grave. They bring also flowers to put in son’s grave. What if they ride a taxi? Maybe they would feel comfortable. They can sit well and feel so good because of the air conditioned. The next character was the priest, he was an old too, and he is wearing his eyeglasses and rosary necklace. I think he is a good priest because he gives the wish of an old woman. The priest housekeeper was the first who entertain the old woman and the 14 year old girl. Maybe he is a the age of 30 years old. The last character was Carlos Centeno Ayala. It’s not told in the story if how old he is but I think he is 25 years old. It told here that she is a boxer, but her mother was not able like his career, she is worried that her son was hurt. Carlos Centeno Ayala was also a thief. He is dies because her mother killed him through an old gun. The plot or flow of the story was good at first an old woman and a twelve year old girl was riding through banana plantation train. It is extremely hot there. They feel uncomfortable. What if they ride a taxi? Maybe they would feel comfortable and maybe they can sleep for a while. Perhaps it is quite expensive in transportation but it is worth for them because their destination was quite far. But it is said in the story that they are poor. So I understand them why they ride a train. When they reach their destination they fixed themselves first before they get off in the train. Since it is rest time. People in town are in their houses, eating and resting. When they reach the priest home, the mother knock the door but it is still time of the priest to rest. The woman forces the housekeeper to see and talk the priest. Then the priest comes and they talk. They talked about her son’s place of grave. Then she tells to the priest about what had really happen of her son’s death. It was very sad because she is the one who killed her own son. But why she killed him? Maybe that night he wants to enter in their home but the old woman thinks that the man outside their house was a thief or anybody else who will have a bad intention to her or maybe she thinks that she would be killing by that person. Her son was a boxer. Why she let her son stops this thing? What if he continues this? Maybe he would be discovered like Manny pacquiao, and he will become one of the famous boxers in the world rather than he would be a thief. Stealing other people things is not good. It’s shameful. There are many good ways on how to help a family but not become a thief. But why the old woman ride train before they get on her son’s grave? Maybe she ‘go other place to forget what had happen to her son or maybe there is no cemetery there in their place that’s why it took an hours to reach the cemetery. I don’t really understand the point of view of the writer in Tuesday siesta. It’s seemed complicated for me. Maybe the writer would like to see if how the reader can understand the story even though it seemed complicated. He would like to inform us if how important our dignity is. In this situation, it is very hard for the reader on how to cope up with the given situation. He wants to inform us how important the relationship of the mother and her children. The mother should be the one will guide their son/daughter in a good way. Because the mother is always concerned to her children’s life and she don’t want to put them in harm. I feel so in the story. I don’t see any happiness in this story. In the first paragraph seemed sad until I read the whole story. I feel sad because the mother killed her own son. But I can’t blame her. She only protects herself from any harm. Because of her own wrong thinking she don’t know it was her son outside. I know how she really feels. She feels so bad, sad disappointed, angry by herself, embarrass and hate. The place was so sad too because its siesta time, and the place was so quite it seemed that they also mourn to her son’s death. I think she would regret it with her life forever. Her son died because of her. I feel so disappointed to the mother. Why she let her son to become thief if there is many job to find and to survive. She doesn’t think the fact that being a thief is a big sin, especially from God. She is not a good mother in fact she is a selfish person.
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