The Sympathetic Tone Of Catarino's Death

The story of Catarino's death, the child narrator presents Catarino’s execution in a sympathetic tone with a “scorch of directness and absolute lack of elaboration” (Elena Poniatowska). The words “already begun” and “finally” connote that his execution has taken a very long time. It is slow and agonizing. Campobello states, “The crows had already begun to eat him when they finally let his remains be carted off” (17). The image Catarino being eaten by crows shows the evilness of his torturers and how his life was not