Leoniidas Beratis Persuasive Speech

By suggesting that the auditorium was a "giant, quiet tomb,” Anaya creates a sense of foreshadowing of a death of a character that wouldn't be missed; therefore, having no visitors. Having the exit of the auditorium be described as a “big, empty hall,” Anaya has expanded the tomb to not just the school, but also Antonio’s escape route to his house. In Leonidas Beratis’ run, the red represents the path Antonio has set out on where he will inevitably come across blood and death which brings “moaning” and the “crying… wind.” Personifying the wind to be able to do those actions means that the only person who feels pain about the character’s death is the one who first started traveling the news. Since the suggestion is that only one person will

Anaya quickly changes the plotline from a light, amusing play that made the reader forget about the darkness enclosing in, to having “the skylight of the auditorium [grow] dark with snow,” creating a sense of entrapment leaving the reader lingering in the past while being forced to continue forward. The auditorium provided shelter for the darkness of the outside world while it was undergoing a storm, or a battle. Battles are usually part of greater scale warfare, normally chaotic and not very well contained, resulting in a lot of casualties. Tenorio has declared war on Ultima and will not rest until she is dead. Sometimes, people have no choice but to participate in the war; whether they are so passionate about the topic being disputed over that they cannot ignore what is happening and join, like Antonio and his direct relatives that are determined to protect Ultima, or they get drafted. If they get drafted, people can occasionally get out of it by proving that their religion conflicts with the actions one would do in battle. There is also a lot of controversy on the topic of morals and whether it should be morally correct to end someone else’s