"One of these days" Literary sentences

                                                     
11/23/10
One of these days

         Short story by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, response by Jonathan Guzman

        The short story One of these days is about a dentist named Aurelio Escovar who has dentistry, except he doesn’t have a degree. Aurelio is living through a life of poverty and disgrace and the time period is during a Civil War in Columbia. In this story Aurelio who is busy with his precious gold tooth, is constantly polishing it and keeping it as his property and refuses to give it back to the mayor. However, the Mayor arrives at his dentistry and has an extremely bad toothache and he threatens the dentist that he will shoot him if he does not receive proper dentistry. All of this also is taking place with the dentist’s decision to cheer one side of this war that is going on.

The thesis of the short story is about how this dentist who decides to come out of the poverty with a golden tooth and also the fact of his anger towards people for the deaths of people he knows (war deaths). As a result of the deaths and anger he tries to harm the mayor who is partly responsible of what is happening in Columbia during that time.

“Dry your tears”, this was the quote that showed the dentist’s change and seriousness. Aurelio was ready to do something, unexpected, nothing that can now be changed. Aurelio Escovar in the inside is another person, many people think of him as a good, and hard working person. But, in the inside he is different, he is sensitive and quick tempered. Aurelio is also the type of person who would look for revenge, which in this case he thinks in harming the mayor because of having something small to do with his friends’ death.

In conclusion, I think that this short story shows a lot of inner thoughts of the dentists and whom he considers an enemy. As a result of a short transition of the poverty to richness, he is becoming mentally different than what he was before. This story shows the idea of how people can change with objects that can change their life forever.