Just Lather That's All By Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Why would an old-school barber have the thoughts about killing their customer? Why would a dentist make the removal of a tooth so painful for a mayor? The story “Just Lather, That’s all” written by Hernando Tellez and the story “One of These days” constructed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, both of these stories have strong similarities between both of them but what really sticks out is how similar both the Barber is just as similar to the Dentist. Both of these stories have hatred in them either if it's for killing people that you think are right, or it's for the job title. The man named Torres “Just Lather, That’s All” is a bounty hunter people would call him. But why would the barber ever think about killing him? The barber is what Torres hunts …show more content…
The barber lived in a time where people were pursued based on the beliefs but they didn’t go to jail a man named Torres would shot them. The dentist's life was at risk because if he didn’t pull the mayor's tooth then he would be shot. So how these stories have a strong connection is that the barber could have killed the man Torres and be called a hero by some and a murder by most. “ Murderer or a hero? My destiny depends on the edge of this blade. I can turn my hand a bit more press a little harder on the razor, and sink it in. The skin would give away like silk, like rubber. There is nothing more tender than the human skin and the blood is always there ready to pour forth”( Tellez 2 ). To dig further more into this similarity he can kill this man and have it all this killing done but they will find someone new and then they would start the killing again also the barber would have to leave everything behind and what he built up to would be gone. The dentist can make the life of the mayor so painful that the mayor would just wanna die. “Without rancor, rather bitter tenderness he said, “Now you will pay for our twenty dead men” the mayor felts the crunch of bones in his jaw and his eyes filled with tears” ( Marquez 2). How this shows that the dentist is getting back at him is that he is putting a ton of pain in the mayor's body …show more content…
But they both need to get paid in order for them to live. The barber really just wanted Torres out of his shop. “ From his pants pocket, he took out several coins to pay me for my service and then headed for the door. In the doorway, he paused and said “They told me that you’d kill me. I came to find out. But killing isn’t easy. You can take my word for it.””( 2). This quote is saying that Torres would have expected the barber to kill him due to how easy it would be and all the wrong things Torres has done but the barber is a good man and wanted to not have to leave everything behind. With the dentist, the mayor doesn’t pay his bills like he should. “ Send the Bill,” he said “ To you or the town” The mayor didn’t look at him. He closed the door and said through the screen: “it's the same damn thing”” (2). The dentist knows that the mayor doesn’t pay his bills it's the people that do it for him.

Without furthermore, both the dentist and the barber had a pretty hard day. The barber dealt with a man that kills people. But the barber and Torres were enemies. The dentist dealt with the greedy selfish mayor. So both of these stories show that you just gotta get through whatever the thrown at you and that's what both the barber and the dentist did. But even though the barber had a life on the line that he could have killed. But the dentist

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