Lope doesn’t attend school for three years, going from one place to the next trying to earn some money to feed his mother and himself. One must understand that this is taking place in a small village of Spain, and long time ago when Spain had real economic problems plus a lot of taboo. He has already lost his father, so it’s his turn to support himself and his mother. Lope is a young teenager when his mother dies. I think that it’s the perfect time to talk about Lope, the main character. Let’s start defining sin of omission: to disregard, to oversight, or to withhold someone or something. This situation leaves two kinds of sins in this short story one is sin of omission, and the other sin of commission. Matute decided to name her sin in her story. Yet I have met some Catholic people who have assured me that there is something called “white lies.” Important to say, white lies don’t have a thing to do with one’s skin color! A white lie is a little lie, nothing major or traumatic for both parts (to the one saying it and to the one receiving it). Sin doesn’t have a size, a name, or a color. “Pecado de omisión,” which translated into English, means “Sin of Omission.” Most of the time Protestantism declares that a sin is a sin, not matter what. Let them go just as they go, sensing little trouble in all of their aspects. I became at that very moment one of those expected readers, looking for answers.Ĭertainly I must confess: I don’t fracture my skull in literature’s matters.

Matute had left the readers’ imagination and content to fill in the explicit questions or arguments. My eyes kept staring at the last words, “Yes, yes, yes.” There were so many possible answers since Mrs. I wanted to keep reading, thought the short fiction came to an end. Matute is pretty much a surrealist, though I’m not so sure if she would appreciate this title to her writing. Salvador Dalí, the most famous Spaniard surrealist painter. Yet when I think about Ana María Matute, I associate her with Mr. Some of you may think surrealism is a plastic art term, from the paintings and sculptures that different artists create.

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