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

Case Study: "The Eclipse" By Augusto Monterroso

 Pre-case Questions

1. How would you classify this story?
2. Where was the priest from?
3. Who is Carlos V?
4. Why did the priest mention Carlos V?
5. Where does the action take place?
6. How were the indians going to kill him and where?
7. Why does the indians want to kill him?
8. How is the jungle depicted?
9. Why did the Mayan Indians kill the Spanish priest?
10. How did they kill him?
11. In your opinion, was this action justified?