Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo

Av. de los Próceres 49, Santo Domingo

Name: Eliandra Cecilia Mateo Regalado.

ID: 1114754.

Section: SHI106

course: INGLÉS 04 (INTERMEDIO II)

Teacher: Juan Manuel Gautier

college: Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo.

Worked: Midterm Activity: Writing

The woman, Juan Bosch, is the name of my favorite book. Its genre is literary and its
publication date is (1932), (La Vega: Imprenta El Progreso, R. A. Ramos, 1933, 152 pages.).
Bosch is one of the most outstanding Latin American short story writers, writing several works
of different genres, such as sociological analysis essays, novels, and above all his stories that
have earned him the credit of being one of the best short story writers in America. He has also
stood out as a highly sensitive politician, founding two of the most important political
organizations in the Dominican Republic, and through which he became President of the
Republic.

Everything takes place in a very poor and isolated peasant community where the land is arid
and unproductive, which worsens the economic production of the inhabitants of that region.
The husband of the woman named Chepe leaves his house for the hill where he had farms. As
he says goodbye, he tells his wife, with whom he had a son, to sell the goat's milk and save the
money for him when he returns. Due to the precariousness and lack of food for the child, the
woman decides to give the child milk as food so as not to let him starve. When Chepe returns
three or four days later, he asks his wife for the money from the sale of the milk. She replied
that she did not have it because the milk had been cut. She immediately hit him in a violent
way, to the point of hitting her so roughly and threw her on the edge of the road leaving her
almost dead and bleeding from her mouth and nose. At those moments he would approach a
man named Quico, and help the woman by seeing her in her state that she was with her; he
took her to her house, and there he tried to help her. But Chepe, her husband, returned from
her, and when he found her in her house, he hit her again and threw her out of the house. As it
was in the presence of Quico, she rushed at Chepe, and taking him by the neck she suffocated
him with such ferocity that Chepe almost died. The woman, seeing her husband almost dead,
took a stone and hit Quico sharply on the head, falling to his knees and then abruptly to the
ground where she left a pool of blood and did not move anymore. Thus, the woman paid
Quico, whom she defended so that Chepe, her husband, would not kill her.

I like this book for its message, and not only for that, but also because it is very interesting and
crazy at the same time because, why didn't the woman hit her husband with a stone and not
the one who defended her? The feeling of the woman for her husband Chepe was above all
circumstances to the point that, being so mistreated, she preferred to attack the one who
defended her from her husband's violence, because she was about to be killed by Quico, who
defended her. said woman. Therefore, the message could be: in a lawsuit between husband
and wife, whoever meddles in them will be harmed.