I Only Came To Use The Phone

All I wanted to do was use a cell phone and suddenly I could feel the air being sucked out of my body, I struggled trying to get the stranger off of me as I raced to the front door. I pounded against the floor until my fingers felt scraped on the cement and as I tried to reach the door handle with all the strength left in my body it was too late. Waking up in the middle of the night telling myself it is only a bad dream when in reality there was no way to escape the nightmare because it was truly happening and there was no way out or anyone to hear my voice. In the story “I Only Came to Use the Phone” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, there was a character named Maria de la Luz Cervantes’ who went through the worst situation ever one evening when
“He gave her a bishop blessing from the door, asked her to trust him, and disappeared forever.” This is significant because trust issues were a concern in the story since at first she felt like she could trust the doctor. She even thought he would let her use the phone because he was being so sweet and didn’t ask for anything in return but it turned out he let her down and eventually vanished. Her husband ended up being someone who also had trust issues because he believed she had left him for someone else and had jealous problems. When she finally got a reach of him, he didn’t believe a single thing she said and he called her a whore and hung up.The worst part is that her husband went to go visit her at the hospital, but still thought she had left him and believed the matron when she told him Maria needed more time to recover and he ended up leaving her there to rot. I would have been heartbroken if I was Maria, I could only imagine how she felt deep down.Overall, this all ties back to a nightmare because without trust there is not much a person can do because what if information gets to the wrong person that was supposed to help us in a life or death situation. Eventually it can get a person killed, which would be the worst