The tale is about a man
that describe when he was child and when he works for his father at his dog-oil business and also helping his
mother with her work taking charge of unwelcome babes. But when his duties for
each of his parents were mixed one day, the consequences are terrible and
tragic. The story occurs in Otumwee, Boffer Bings is a young man that narrated
his different facts when he was a child and when he helps his parents in their
jobs .The Boffer's dad had a honest and humble job, his business was about oil
of dog, he had many cauldrons with that. For other side, The Boffer's mom has a
weird job, she had a small business in a corner, near to the church, taking
charge of unwelcome babes. For helping his parents, Boffer Bings was involucrate
in tragic situation that finished with the death of his parents and that also
change the course of his life, but now the question is, is he victim or
accomplice?
I think that the
childhood is a definitive stage in a person life, is in where the customs take
hold and many aspects are defined in the people's life, and the main guides are
the parents because the children's always try and want to be like them parents,
making and acting as them, getting back to the tale, I think that Boffer Bings
for the great love that he feel to his parents and for being there always
helping them, unintentionally he became accomplice of those bad acts, but at
the same time he was a victim because he only make it for help his parents
without knowing the consequences.
Ambrose
Bierce (2014) says “Where these memoirs
are written with a heart full of remorse for a heedless act entailing so dismal
a commercial disaster".
In all the cultures,
all bad and great things that you make always will have a price and a punishment,
if you act well, you will be fine but if you act in a bad way, you must wait
for a punishment. And the worst punishment of all, are the regrets you have
inside you, and it will take you to the total failure.
It has great
relationship with the situation that cross many children's and many teenagers in
Colombia right now, that grow in places that not only is missing materials
things or resources, and worse is missing the warmth which make them feel safe
and backed. As consequences of that many teenagers and children’s, follow the
bad path of their parents, because they not have something or someone to
follow, and them finish as victims or accomplice of Colombia's own society.
to make a conclusion,
we can say that the situations narrated by Boffer Bings, is the reality of many
children’s and teenagers, that are victims of maltreatment or bad examples of
the society in which they live, many times without knowing it will turn in
accomplice of a corrupt society that not offer them better options of life and
with a justice that forgive all but the only true punishment they have it in
their head and in their hearth. All the bad acts bring its consequenses.