wandered the world may be the freest form of life that some choose; power off or uprooted from the ties that bind him to his home or family circle, is without doubt the greatest show of being free to create. But such statements are not fit for Jesus Maria Zapata, the lead character in the novel Gale. His rootlessness born by the neglect of her father condemned him, not knowing the latter, that his fate-worse-was cast from that event.
Of course a parent should go bum bum son, thinking this could be the natural order when the father figure is present to generate such behavior. Regardless of this absence, Jesus Maria Zapata, who was called "mongrel" or "gale" (the reader will know when it discusses the work) was from an errant child, with the single law the respect and appreciation for his mother Maria Rosa Zapata. She, like some mothers, expect the best for their children, as such tries unsuccessfully Jesús María link in pastoral work and school, a ravening beast shackled as he was.
''His blood and his instincts were made for something else
cage school. Was almost sad to see that boy
vivid eyes, nests of sun and moon, in whose depths
saw submerged church tower or the unhappy prisoner bird that
to hunt with a noose around sitting still and silent (...) ''
No doubt the life of this character would not tolerate such a regime, however, when he found a way to access the communion wine is kept in the sacristy, Jesus Maria drank the blood of Christ with avid desire drunkenness, youthful folly. Its sweet taste did consider and devoted as she danced like a acrobat hanging from the ropes of the bells of the church, overwhelmed in a sea of \u200b\u200becstasy what did the people think that the devil had taken over the house of God.
Their wanderings were no longer unknown to the common people: the young man wandering the streets and houses of every kind began to experience the pleasures of life, drinking beer and liquor cunchos left by drunks when the cataracts of liquor poured boiling their noses as they fell into a dream alicorado. But the destination is up to something and Jesus Maria Zapata had some really killer:
''(...) until one day he burned the ears and soul words
emerged from the shops, according to which he had come into the world
through the back door of religion and law.''
This was the trigger to start the path to somewhere. Not expected to leave track your steps, as the news of being illegitimate child was scored more than "the rule monumental punitive instrument d and the most feared ytemiblespalmetazos" used Don Ramon, the school teacher. Jesus Maria Zapata thus became a "tramp around the world, a wanderer and dreamer crazy night owl" as sung Draco Rosa. He left his homeland, it questioned him to bring the condition to which his father was convicted, went like Christ to the cross without knowing that he would find for his own benefit.
The Cross to which I refer in the novel is the symbol that marked the deception Rosendo Luis Pabon (father of Jesus Maria Zapata), as Pabón stripped to trick the Mary Rose pawn jewelry later would find Mary and Jesus to increase their hatred toward the man who crucified him before his own birth. Thus, the road seemed endless in the eyes of "Gale", without forgetting the goal of finding his father became a railroad engineer, until a figure women managed to focus. Graciela bore the name, but it certainly was not for him. His last letter that he had not once again condemned him: a natural child, the constant echo was the excuse for being denied the woman's hand.
"So they wanted a son of a bitch in the house? ... Well there you have !..."
This said after having his naked body next to his Grace, defying any impairment of her parents to carry out this act in his own house relatives of his beloved. In this way tried to end that chapter in his life, but failed. It would be his father who would pay for this and for all that to date had occurred with his mother. Determined to find continued his journey, along with the waves of the sea and in the company of a bottle of liquor he drank every drink bitterly as if it were your last, when after a few words said
"-the son of a bitch sos vos
These words were addressed to his father who was in that place, of course, those reactions were preceded by homicide, parricide not because Rosendo Luis Pabon had never been his father. Thus history José Restrepo Jaramillo narrating comprises elements that portray everyday life in society imbued with a deep feeling of revenge and reunion with the history that was written on his back.
Collection Volume 5 Antioquia authors
Medellín - 1984
By: John Edwin Trujillo
