Carlos Nicolas Flores a Native-American from El Paso, Texas, is an exceptional professor and writer. El Paso, Texas is where he was born. Shortly after graduating from University of Texas at El Paso with a Master’s degree in English and he became a professor at Laredo Community College. Later on, he decided to take a different route with his degree and began to teach a development of Chicano and Black Literature. That is what steered him towards Dartmouth College in New Hampshire where he began his research. In 1977, the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines allowed him to launch the, “Revista Rio Bravo.” He found the financial means and time in 1989 to explore in Mexico, writing anecdotes on his expedition. Presenting his short story,
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Honore and Maruca are two hard working parents that go through a series of conflicts that all occur in their home. Bonita is their beautiful 15th-teen year old child. Honore’s name was given by his father and his name originated from a French novelist, Honore de Balzac. His blood line of the men has a legacy of being “coyotes, narcotraficantes, drunks, or womanizers.” Sadly, his father passed away in a firearm battle over a married woman. He is more of a street smart man, rather than a book smart man. Jose Marti was a Cuban hero that died in the revolution against the Spanish imperialist and that is what Honore was reading on his day off until he was distracted by many things. Dona Panfila, his mother was constantly bothering him and always feeling lonely, since she is alone at her house. Honore’s name meant “man of honor,” according to what his father told his mother. Both Maruca and Honore have a love hate relationship. In one moment, they could be fighting while the next, they could be getting along. He always finds her cleaning their house, as it begins with the novel that she is mopping. He is willing to do anything to provide for the family, even taking great risks of getting killed or arrested as a narcotraficante. Honore has a macho attitude and the mentality that he can do anything by himself, which he attempts to prove when his high school friend, Trotsky, offers him help. Honore refused his help, therefore he became injured when trying to cut down a branch off of the tree that was scraping on Bonita’s window. The only reason that he decided to finally cut the tree was because his wife was nagging him to. In addition, his wife said that he would get some candy late at night. Two men, Juan and Pedro, dropped off twenty crates of dolls at his house, which Trotsky had mentioned to him over the phone earlier. His wife was upset that the crates were in
Honore and Maruca are two hard working parents that go through a series of conflicts that all occur in their home. Bonita is their beautiful 15th-teen year old child. Honore’s name was given by his father and his name originated from a French novelist, Honore de Balzac. His blood line of the men has a legacy of being “coyotes, narcotraficantes, drunks, or womanizers.” Sadly, his father passed away in a firearm battle over a married woman. He is more of a street smart man, rather than a book smart man. Jose Marti was a Cuban hero that died in the revolution against the Spanish imperialist and that is what Honore was reading on his day off until he was distracted by many things. Dona Panfila, his mother was constantly bothering him and always feeling lonely, since she is alone at her house. Honore’s name meant “man of honor,” according to what his father told his mother. Both Maruca and Honore have a love hate relationship. In one moment, they could be fighting while the next, they could be getting along. He always finds her cleaning their house, as it begins with the novel that she is mopping. He is willing to do anything to provide for the family, even taking great risks of getting killed or arrested as a narcotraficante. Honore has a macho attitude and the mentality that he can do anything by himself, which he attempts to prove when his high school friend, Trotsky, offers him help. Honore refused his help, therefore he became injured when trying to cut down a branch off of the tree that was scraping on Bonita’s window. The only reason that he decided to finally cut the tree was because his wife was nagging him to. In addition, his wife said that he would get some candy late at night. Two men, Juan and Pedro, dropped off twenty crates of dolls at his house, which Trotsky had mentioned to him over the phone earlier. His wife was upset that the crates were in