Ashes for the Wind Essay

In the short story Ashes for the Wind, Hernando Tellez uses Juan Martinez to assign that sometimes you kick in to make sacrifices in order to fight degeneration and injustice. Through Juan, his wife Carmen and their baby, the author tries to hand over that people should not be pushed around and intimidated, which is why I think that Juan is a hero. To me being a hero can mean many things, wether it is to inspire, help or rase take a stand and a scratch line step towards something crack and good a hero is a hero and thats who Juan is. He stood up to the authorities, even though at the time he whitethorn not have know or realized this, by sacrificing his flavor and his familys, he sends a message and makes a point. Juan represents liberty, innocence and shows the corruption in the government. Freedom to vote for what you want and not what you are forced to freedom to other farmers and people to make their own choices and not be thrown and twisted out, pushed away and punished because of corruption or their votes. Innocence, in the fact that Juan and his family died an sinless wipeout that was not deserved just because Juan voted for what he wanted and when the soul who won turned out to be someone else they ordered his death under the suspicion that he was a resistor. These two things help to show the people that there is corruption in their government and that people arent being treated equally and fair, that someone has to do something about it and Juan took the first stand. He was a leader, a hero and for all we know could have been the reason for people to start a revolution, that eventually set things even up again and saved lives of many people. It shows that through each action, not be how big or small, we make our future.