Balthazar
BalthazarBalthazar��s Marvelous Afternoon ( Why didn��t Balthazar receive the money?) �� Balthazar��s Marvelous Afternoon ��, written by Gabrial Garcia Marquez, is a story about a birdcage and a poor carpenter, Balthazar. In the story, Balthazar made a beautiful birdcage that was commissioned by Pepe, the son of a rich man, Jose Montiel. However, when the carpenter took it to the boy, his father refused to pay and rather said to sell it other people. Although Balthazar got really angry, he gave the cage to Pepe as a present. At the end of the story, he told townpeople that he got much money from the rich man and bought everyone cerebratory drinks. Then, why didn��t Balthazar receive the money. First, he had no intention of money when making beautiful cage. In the story, he was accustomed to making and creating cage since childhood. So when Pepe ordered a cage, he could make small cage just quickly rather than create big and beautiful cage for two weeks; ( p 381, ll 45~50). Also, if he was interested in earning the money, he would not even start to work on the cage only by commission of the little boy because he couldn��t be sure whether he can get money or not. However, Balthazar was a artist rather than a common carpenter. What he really wanted as making the cage was to make the little boy happier. Secondly, he felt mean and dirty about rich man��s money. In this story, the cage was splendid and beautiful as much as news of its beauty had spreaded...
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