Life Of Lazarillo De Tomes Summary

We as natural citizens of this world, feel the obligation to report every wrong doing in our society/communities. It’s natural to want to dismantle and expose our sorrowing by showing the reality in which we life. It make us want to take actions. And that is precisely what Lazarillo does in the book The Life Of Lazarillo De Tormes. This book is an anonymous autobiography. Lazaro tells us his life as a child and how due to his life circumstance see himself force to become a picaresque kid. In the book, he narrates how he see himself force to mentally grow up to survive. His purpose, is make us comprehend his future actions, and in a way, also tell us the reality in which he lives in, the sixteen century Spain.
As mentioned before, Lazaro uses his autobiography to point out morality critique tours religious. Throughout the book, as Lazaro changes owners in each chapter, he starts to introduce us tours various religious figures in his society. One of Lazaro’s first view to religious is his second owner (chapter 2), the priest. As Lazaro’s life’s goes on, we start see that some of his masters are
This fifth owner is a seller of indulgences, which basically means people pay him to give them forgiveness and access to heaven. Even though selling indulgences in sixteen century Spain was a common act, this seller did many things to force people to buy them even though they were false. Lazaro state that he saw his master, in many occasion tricking people to by him indulgences. For example, in page 92, Lazaro tells us that his master was very cleaver when trying to persuade people. He starts by saying, “he’d resort to the most ingenious tricks. It would take too long to describe all the things I saw him get up to,” (page 92). Not only is he faking his abilities, he is also taking advantage of innocent people. Which also, contradicts Catholicism believes and