Rosario tijeras capítulo 7

In Chapter Seven, the narrator is still in the waiting room of the hospital. He remembers a conversation with Rosario in which she confessed that she was not afraid of her own death, but that of others. He said he imagined her as a whore, similar to her. At that time, Rosario dressed and wore makeup in black and walked in satanic practices. This frightened Emilio and the narrator, who refused to go to these meetings. Rosario considered them to be faggots. However, this satanic stage of the girl was short-lived because she killed a man from the sect. According to rumors, Rosario did not like that the victim had forced her to have sex and murdered him with a revolver. Even so, the woman always denied this story. According to the narrator, Rosario began to be an idol in the streets of Medellín: on all the walls of the neighborhoods there was graffiti about her adventures and adventures. Even the girls wanted to be like her. This was loved by Rosario, who enjoyed gossip and gossip. Among the things that were said, the narrator told her that they had invented that he was in love with her. For Rosario this story could not be more delirious. Of course, this hurt the narrator, who punished himself for not daring to tell him that he loved her.

In this chapter, the novel delves into the bond between Rosario, Emilio and the narrator, crossed by the subtle limits between love and friendship. Although for the outside world the relationship of the three characters is a friendship, one of the fundamental axes of the novel is the love that the narrator lives for Rosario. It is interesting to make it clear that the boy's feelings appear in an overflowing way, but, at the same time, they are repressed by him. This impossibility of telling the woman the nature of her feelings is understood by the narrator as cowardice; "Once ... I locked myself in a bathroom of a nightclub and slapped myself until my face turned red. Whoops! For Güevón, bam! For being a sissy and have! for chicken" (p.90). For the narrator, love for Rosario is a tormented and suffering feeling, which must be lived in solitude and silence.