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Uncertain Quest John Steinbeck's story, "Flight," is the story of the mestizo boy Pep? Torres and his tragic journey to become a man. Raised on a farm between Monterey
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John Steinbeck's story, "Flight," is the story of the mestizo boy Pepé Torres and his tragic journey to become a man. Raised on a farm between Monterey and the mountains (425), Pepé was the first son of a Hispanic father and an Indian mother. The setting of the story is in the middle of these two worlds, which lets the reader know that they are both equally important in Pepé's manhood development. Pepé Torres's journey through manhood is affected by the conflict within himself on whether to become a man in his father's or his mother's eyes, and it is influenced by the presence of conventional and natural symbols, and also, defined by biblical allusions.
During the first half of the complication of the story, Pepé's manhood is defined by conventional symbols. His conflict begins when he has to leave for Monterey to get salt and some medicine (427), and he has to enter his father's Hispanic world. First and foremost, after his father's death, Pepé acquires a black knife, and he always has it with him because it was his father's knife (426). This is the first object that Pepé relates with his manhood. Before starting his trip to Monterey, his mother gives him his father's hat (428), which was a symbol of dignity and age. He also rides on his father's horse, using his father's saddle (428), which symbolically represents man's control over nature. Pepé believes these objects make him a man, for he says to his mother before leaving that he is a man now (428). While in Monterey, Pepé drinks wine and gets into a "little quarrel" (430) where he kills a man with his father's knife (431). Although he believes he is a man now, Pepé shows by his actions that he is still a boy, when he goes back to the farm and his mother, and runs away into the mountains (431-433). Before he leaves, he acquires his father's black coat and his rifle with ten cartridges (431). All these events make Pepé's manhood rise because of foolish beliefs, and he leaves for the...
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