Lazarillo De Torme Analysis

The word choice throughout Lazarillo de Tormes offers the reader a better glance into the life of Lazaro and gives the opportunity to put themselves in the place of the character. Through the word choice and description of Lazaro’s starvation, the reader gives consent and feels empathy for the actions that Lazaro must use in order to survive. These actions often have to deal with hiding and concealing. The choice of worlds throughout the novella opens the reader up into the world that Lazaro is suffering in and the descriptions of the pain that Lazaro goes through brings images to the mind of what it must be like. This offers the reader a chance to experience to understand and accept why Lazaro behaves in the way that he does and why he chooses
This signifies that Lazaro is learning from his master about the tricks and ways to conceal and lie. Lazaro is admitting that he is even having trouble hiding things from this man even though he is blind. Lazaro takes the skills of hiding and concealment that he learned with this master and uses it as he moves on to his following masters.
Lazaro moves onto a master that he is able to keep secrets from and is able to practice the techniques of hiding that he had started to establish with his old master, the blind man. The author chooses to talk about Lazaro literally hiding something in his mouth and him being subjected to searches. Lazaro knows that his tricks aren’t going to work so now he has to become crafty in order to survive, “…as I hadn’t a pocket or patch in my clothes that he didn’t search regularly. Well, as I said, I put the key into my mouth before going to sleep and slept without fear that my employer might find it in his nightly searches” (Pages 26-27). The choice of the word search is often related to the idea of having something to hide. Lazaro has something that he wishes to conceal from his master, because he is stealing from him using this key. The description of the starvation and desperation that Lazaro is going through makes the reader feel as if Lazaro is justified for stealing from his master. Lazaro describes his situation with his masters so far as, “The first
Through the description of the pain that he was feeling from starvation, Lazaro’s actions of hiding and stealing was justified because the reader sympathized with him. Hiding and concealing was a major part of each of his masters and in order to survive, Lazaro needed to be tricky and figure out ways to survive off of the limited goods he was given to live off of. The certain words that were used like search and descriptions that were given that show concealment and hiding, helped showcase the importance of these actions during Lazaro’s