Analysis Of Herrera's Short Story 'The Objects'

Why do people write? Do they do it for the fun of it or to portray a message? Yuri Herrera wrote to portray his message to his audience. He uses many different types of methods to get it out to them. Some people may find his work difficult to understand but with the right mind others see it as a way to change the world we live in. In Herrera’s short story “The Objects”, he writes about a rat and a louse in a world of classification. He uses these characters to tell his audience about the truths of this cruel and unjust world we live in today. In his story, he refers to the world as a building and the higher you are in this building the more powerful you become. In our world today it is the same way. When you see someone with nice clothes or nice objects, we as people classify them. The same happens when we see someone not so fortunate. Just like in Herrera’s short story the world around us classifies people as high and mighty like the big dogs or as either low and pestilent like the rat and louse. He uses a rat and a louse to describe the lower life people because when we think of a the pestilent we think of something disgusted and unwanted. He also uses the action of his characters to describe the world we live in. For example, Herrera uses a character’s words …show more content…
People are very curious about what is above them. In today’s world, people that are thought of as inferior wonder what makes the superiors so great. What is the difference between them? What do they do that is so amazing? These are the questions that they ask themselves. It is human nature to want to know more and that is what makes people so curious about the people greater than them. It is not that they admire them but they just want to know why. They always want to know more than they do. As we read in “The Objects” Herrera uses the louse the smallest of them all to journey into the unknown to see what he could