Tellez uses animalistic features and actions when describing Captain Torres. "He said nothing when he entered (p.428)." When an animal first enters a room is as if they creep in the room silently, which is exactly how Tellez seems to describe Torres in the beginning of "Just Lather, That's All". Animals have fur and are rugged. Tellez describes Torres as having a "four day beard" (p.428). Tellez is trying to have us see through the barber's eyes to see how inhumane and cruel Torres can be.

Tellez, Hernando. "Just Lather, That's All".

nts a security blanket for the barber and a barrier between the barber and Captain Torres. At the beginning, when the barber puts on shaving cream, he is thinking rationally and calmly. He asks Torres about his career and "got on with the job of lathering his beard" (p.428). With each stroke of the blade there is less shaving cream remaining on Torres' face. And with the less shaving cream on Torres' face the less rationally the barber thinks. He thinks about how "One of the tiny pores could be opened up and issue forth its pearl of blood." The barber's mind starts rambling thinking about "How many of us had he ordered to be shot? How many of us had he ordered to be mutilated" (p.429)? When there is only little spots of shaving cream left on Torres' face the barber can't even think clearly. The thinks to himself "A little more lather here, under his chin, on his Adam's apple, on his big vein...[And] I, with the razor in my hands can't even think clearly...how

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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)