![]() He talks with his friend Pepe about religion and work, where someone died the water red. “Filiberto’s journal begins normally: he meets with a lawyer about his pension and dines in a café. The narrator looks through Filiberto’s briefcase and finds his journal … Filiberto is to be transferred in his coffin via truck, and the narrator is going to deliver him. He seems to know why he drowned – he was tempted to go, then swam too much for his age. ![]() I think they are related to what it means to be Mexican, to know our past and to be exalted by that, to understand what happened and not feel ashamed of it.The narrator begins: Filiberto murió ahogado en Acapulco (191). Do you find any relationship between this story and Paz’ essays?.Of course the story is an allegory, I think it is referring to the time of the conquest only that now is inverted, since it is Chac Mool that conquers Filiberto to do his will. Is this story an allegory? What allegorical readings might be possible?.I think that the yellow Indian is an humanized Chac Mool that murdered Filiberto to be able to live and that with everything he put on he wanted to adapt to the modern era. How do you interpret the description of the “Indio Amarillo” in the final paragraph? What does it mean?.In character, Chac Mool is selfish, very demanding and aggressive when things do not like him or what he asks for is not taken care of. Afterwards he appears straight, with a smile and eyes very close to the triangular nose. Next, describe that the color change It was no longer Stone, it was yellow now, almost golden. When the rains pass at Filiberto’s house and he is removing the lama, he realizes that it has something like flesh texture and feels the rubber arms and has hair on them. What is he like physically? What is his personality like? Probably Fuentes was referring to the fact that Chac Mool is no longer a symbol of an existing deity and now it is only decoration por the people, since it was extracted from his sacred place and he no longer takes the recognition he should because we are in a different era. ![]() What does the line “Él sabe de la inminencia del hecho estético” mean?.I interpret it as an injustice towards Mexican indigenous peoples because literally Le Plongeons stole Chac Mool from his sacred place and wanted to make it his own, and Chac Mool now he is looking for revenge for that with the poor Filiberto. How can we interpret Fuentes’ re-telling of Le Plongeon’s act?.He is referring to the British archaeologist who discovered Chac Mool in Yucatan. ![]()
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