Oil of dog - Ambrose Bierce, VICTIM OR ACCOMPLICE ?

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.