Loving Enough to Let Go, Essay on Two Stories of Eva Luna
Loving Enough to Let Go
“The Road North” and “And of Clay We Are Created”, both from The Stories of Eva Luna are short stories that demonstrate the painful agony of letting a loved one go. These stories share similar events in which the main characters: Claveles Picero from “The Road North” and Rolf Carle from “And of Clay We Are Created” both meet, love and then learn to let go of a special person in their life. Claveless and Rolf were both able to make the ultimate sacrifice of letting a loved one go, showing how much that they loved the special people they had in their life.
In the midst of their every day lives; Claveles Picero and Rolf Carle are both hit with unexpected encounters with special people that will leave long lasting emotional scars in their life. Claveles Picero, a merchant of her grand fathers religious artifacts, stopped going to the city one day. She stayed home and then had here baby “Claveles’s baby was received…Picero, then. Juan Picero” (226). She met her child the day that he was born, and named him Juan. On a routine news mission, Rolf Carle was sent by the news station to cover footage of a wrecked town. Upon his visit he first encounters this little girl named Azucena who is trapped in quicksand and gravel up to her neck “Rolf Carle was in on the story of Azucena from the beginning…the air around him seemed murky as mud” (356). As one can view the scene, one notices that Rolf Carle not only meets this girl but is also one of the first on the scene. Clavles and Rolf have been exposed to special people in their lives that will leave a lasting impression.
Since both characters have already been exposed to new people in their lives it is inevitable that they bond together and develop some sort of a relationship together. Claveles develops a caring mother bond with her child Juan, as the story progress she finds out he is a def-mute. Also, contemplated by an offer by an adoption agency to send Juan to a special school in the North “Don’t be selfish now, grandfather think what’s best for the boy...What will become of him?” (230). Claveles demonstrates her bond to the child as a...