aguantar: to endure, stand
The title of this piece, "Aguantando", means enduring or standing. I looked this up after reading the short story and it is a fitting title because the young boy who is telling the story has to endure a life of poverty and the absence of his father. The ending of this story is especially sad because Rafa and his younger brother are imagining the return of their father and what it will be like-- except their father is never coming back. He moved to the States to work 9 years earlier and never came back for his family, as he had promised he would. This happens in society today. Men in Latin America leave their families to go find jobs in the States with the hope of one day being able to afford to bring all their loved ones to the States as well; this story is an example of a failed attempt at just that. The father abandoned his family for his life in North America showing how poverty can rip apart any family-- even in latino culture where family is valued so highly.
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