Uncertain Quest
John Steinbeck’s story, “Flight,” is the story of the mestizo boy Pepé Torres and his tragic journey to become a man. Raised on a farm between Monterey and the mountains (425), Pepé was the first son of a Hispanic father and an Indian mother. The setting of the story is in the middle of these two worlds, which lets the reader know that they are both equally important in Pepé’s manhood development. Pepé Torres’s journey through manhood is affected by the conflict within himself on whether to become a man in his father’s or his mother’s eyes, and it is influenced by the presence of conventional and natural symbols, and also, defined by biblical allusions.
During the first half of the complication of the story, Pepé’s manhood is defined by conventional symbols. His conflict begins when he has to leave for Monterey to get salt and some medicine (427), and he has to enter his father’s Hispanic world. First and foremost, after his father’s death, Pepé acquires a black knife, and he......
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