Horacio Castellanos Moya's El Asco

The novel El Asco by Horacio Castellanos Moya starts off by giving us a setting in a bar called La Lumbre. In this bar, there are two main characters, Moya and Vega, and Vega mentioned how he was glad Moya came to join him at the bar. They go on and talk about how long they have known each other since they both went to the same school, Marist Brother School, for eleven years. Vega had been gone for 18 years, living a better life in Canada. Vega then mentions how the only reason he came back to El Salvador was for his mother’s funeral and how if he came back, he would get some inheritance of his mother 's house, but only if he attended her funeral. Throughout the whole book, Moya ranted about El Salvador and how much he hated it with every reason he could possibly think of. Since he left before the civil war, Moya seems to have blamed political corruption, violence and national amnesia for leading up to that point. In this …show more content…
As explained earlier, since everyone wants to be a soldier, that’s all everyone in that country ever thinks about. So because they want to be soldier, they want to be just like them in every way. They want to be on the military’s good side, even if they are not in it. Usually, a military is one who protects the country, but that is not the case here in El Salvador. Instead they make it unsafe and want to kill for no reason and you could even see it in their eyes, according to Moya. Even walking out in the streets is dangerous because buses or drivers are so careless that they will run you over. It seems like crime is no big deal there and anyone can do what they please without getting in trouble since there is not any police enforcement or protection since the military is in control. The military is supposed to be loyal to their country not be against it and backstab them by killing innocent