Literary Focus: Literary Analysis:
Question #6: Infer Why doesn't Don Anselmo reveal who "owns" the trees on his first visit to the lawyer's office? Was he being clever, or was he unaware of the potential problem? Explain.
Don Anselmo was not being clever. Don Anselmo is an honest person. He didn't take the additional money for the land which shows how honest and self righteous he is. A self righteous man such as Don Anselmo was not trying to be clever in this situation.
He was aware of the potential problem too. The reason why Don Anselmo didn't take the money was because he knew that he couldn't sell the trees. Knowing that, he probably could predict that the kids might still come visit the trees and overrun the property of the Americans. Don Anselmo knew that he couldn't sell the trees and thus probably could predict the potential problems that might occur.
My theory is that he just didn't find it necessary to talk about the ownership of trees at the moment. I read this story, where the main character doesn't find out a lot of things until it's too late. But when she asks her fellow classmates about the reason why they didn't tell her, they tell her that she didn't ask. I think Don Anselmo is like that too. I think he just didn't find it necessary to talk about the trees on his first visit to the lawyer's.
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