Geraldo No Last Name
Man vs Himself: Marin fighting her personal values because even if she didn’t know him, didn’t even like him or share any kind of connection, and was part of a very discriminative society, she had an urge to stay at the hospital and care for this man losing his life.
Man vs Man: Geraldo against the man who killed him, since it was a hit and run kind of accident.
Man vs Nature: The man or woman who killed Geraldo against his own human nature of facing fear, prefering to run and putting his own life and wellbeing before others.
Man vs Society: Geraldo against a society based on racism, who judged him and didn’t even care about him or his death for the simple fact that they could assume by his looks, clothes and anonimity that he was a “wetback” as they called him.
Rising Actions: Marin introduces Geraldo by describing him, stating how they met, his looks, what he was wearing.
Climax: When she reveals that she was the last person to see him alive and tells how after the accident, she didn’t know whether to take him to the hospital, stay with him or leave him.
Falling Actions: She once again states how unimportant and strange Geraldo was to her by giving assumptions about who he was (wetback) and how no one knew anything about his life.
Resolution: She closes the story by reinforcing his anonymity “Geraldo was his name and his home is in another country” and how everything and everyone he left behind will never hear from him again.
New ending: She continues with that urge of knowing who this man was, of helping him and giving him the minimum a person deserves. She looked for years for his family, anything that could lead her to them, she even hired a personal detective but the only thing she could find was the misery in which he had lived and promised herself that she would never judge anyone before knowing them again.
By Isabella Duarte, Step 11.
