Characters
Themes & Ideas
Decisions & Consequences
Plot Events
100

narrator of the story


what is the barber

100

Point of view of the story

what is First-person point of view

100

Author of Lather and Nothing Else

what is Hernando Tellez

100

 main setting of the story

what is the barber shop

200

 the man that entered the barber shop

Captain Torres

200

The main internal conflict

To kill or not to kill Torres

200

the barber values more than revenge

what is his honor / his work as a barber

200

2 main characters

what is Captain Torres and barber

300

Captain Torres’s job

What is a military officer/executioner

300

violence leads to..

what is Endless revenge / more violence

300

Torres risks going to the barber..

what is to test him

300

What the barber imagines while shaving

what is killing him

400

 the barber sees himself as...

what is a revolutionary.

400

What barber shows by refusing to kill

Self-control, respect for life

400

quote from the story that gives the BEST explanation for the barbers final decision

what is "I am only a barber. Each one to his job.Thats it. Each one to his job"

400

Torres’s final reveal

what is he was told the barber might want to kill him he came to find out if it was true

500

 barber’s final choice?

what is not to kill Captain Torres.

500

 barber’s razor symbolizes in the story 

what is power/ the choice between life and death.

500

the barber’s decision shows about him

what is values his morals

500

 story suggests true strength comes from

what is restraint / choosing not to kill

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