Belisa Crcusculario Character Analysis

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“ Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it paralyze me.” Fear should not slow you down but to only to propel you and succeed from it and move onto the next obstacle and you will never even remember it existed or if you had a fear of it. This is exactly like the character I will be talking about Belisa Crepusculario and how not only she overcame a fear but of what other women were doing and that time.

So our character Belisa Crepusculario had come from a poor family and having to bury her four younger brothers and sisters. Her family was so poor that the parents didn't even have names for their children, where she came from it was inhospitable and it barely even rained in such a dry desert but when it did it was
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El Mutado and the colonel spent most of their lives fighting in a civil war. Shortly after the rebels had come into the town and El Mulato was in the search for her and threw Belisa into a sea bag, despite being near death,she tried fighting it of to only knock out again and wake up at the camp where she would meet the colonel. El Mulato took her to colonel. Yet when she met him had a very soft voice and offered her a sip of liquor laced with gunpowder, not only showing how tough he was that he had to have liquor laced with gunpowder showing the outside of him, the inside being totally different with him having a soft voice. The colonel asked who she was and if she was the woman who sells words and Belisa replied yes but at that moment she realized that she was standing in front of the loneliest man alive. Despite what Belisa saw the colonel had a different thing on his mind beside the war he had and was going through,he wanted to become the president, he wanted to be loved and cheered instead of people fleeing from him on sight. That was the reason he wanted to have Belisa. So Belisa thought of words the would propel his idea and after a while finally had made speech on a paper for him and she read three times so that the men around her and the …show more content…
Two secret words only for him and not to share them with anyone. After that the colonel realized who she was but El Mulatdo aw something completely different, he saw an irrevocable curse in Belisa. Despite what was El Multado was thinking the colonel was already seeing himself as the president because in the late summer and early fall months, the colonel was leading in the poles and slowely was becoming the people's favorite, but not El Mulatdo heart because he to saw something happening to colonel and that he was becoming soft. So El Mulatdo went out to go look for Belisa again and had found her but Belisa was actually was waiting for him and El Mulatdo desire to found her again had turned to rage, and Belisa just put her self on the horseback and once again El Mulatdo took Belisa.

Three days after they had finally reached where the Colonel had been staying. With all the rage of El Mulatado he took her straight to Colonel put Belisa at gun point and told Colonel “And then she can give you back your manhood”! Yet both not knowing what to do Belisa walked toward Colonel and took his hand in hers. In the end Belisa had comover what other women haven't been able to do and was over come fear, she did not allow it to stop her but change her for the rest of her life but not only her and the ones that she had affected. “Fear is inevitable, I

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