COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
 L436S: Advanced Latin American Cultures
 PROFESSOR FERNANDO VALERIO HOLGUIN

Case Study: "The Eclipse" By Augusto Monterroso

Case Analysis # 2

Name: ________________________________________________ Date: __________________

You are Brother Bartolomé Arrazola today and some decisions which will affect you need to be made.  

You know they are going to sacrifice you and you have to convince the indians to stop the sacrifice. They give you some time to think while they are having an assembly. You know their language.

As you consider your course of action in response to the situation described above, you also know or believe (being a catholic priest) the following:

            -To lie is a sin.            

            -Aristotles is a pagan philosopher.

            -Your mission is to cristianize the Indians.

            -The indians are human beings.

WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU WERE BROTHER BARTOLOME ARRAZOLA?