The events that Antonio witnesses force him to put his religious beliefs into question, and in the process begins to lose his …show more content…
His eyes are forced opened and he sees the world of man, a violent place, and not the friendly, loving world he previously believed it was. Antonio begins to lose his innocence and question his religion the night Chaves (a family friend) interrupts their peaceful Saturday night. Chaves’s brother had been cowardly killed by Lupito earlier that day and he was seeking Gabriel’s (Antonio’s father) help to avenge his death. Gabriel and Chaves leave the house armed to meet the other men on the bridge to kill Lupito. “But tonight there was something strange and fearful in the air. Perhaps this is what drew me out into the night to fallow my father and Chavez down to the bridge,” (17) Antonio is a very curious child and therefore fallows his father to the bridge, so he would not be discovered, Antonio takes a different route along the river and accidently comes across Lupito, who is hiding in the reeds a few yards away. Antonio watches as Lupito is spotted by the men on the bridge and then lost again in the darkness. Antonio is frighten by Lupito’s tormented cries, and of being discovered or mistaken “I trembled