QUESTIONNAIRE

1. Mention biographical data of Julio Ramón Ribeyro

What acknowledgments did he/she receive?
3. Mention his works
4. Why is he considered the best storyteller?
5. Menciona el decálogo de un cuento según Julio Ramón Ribeyro

1. The story must tell a tale. There is no story without a tale. The story is made so that the
reader can tell it.
2. The story of the tale can be real or invented. If it is real, it should seem invented, and if it is
invented real.
3. The story should preferably be brief, so that it can be read in one sitting.
4. The story told by the tale must entertain, move, intrigue, or surprise, if all of this
together better. If it does not achieve any of these effects, it does not exist as a story.
5. The style of the story should be direct, simple, without ornaments or digressions. Let's leave that for the
poetry or the novel.
6. The tale must only show, not teach. Otherwise it would be a moral.
The story admits all techniques: dialogue, monologue, pure and simple narration, epistle,
report, collage of external texts, etc., as long as the story does not dilute and the reader can
reduce it to its spoken expression.
8. The story must begin with situations in which the character or characters experience a conflict that
forces a decision that puts his fate at stake.
9. In the story, there should be no dead time and nothing should be superfluous. Every word is absolutely essential.
essential.
10. The story must lead necessarily, inexorably to a single ending, however surprising it may be.
If the reader does not accept the ending, then the story has failed.

6. Interpret: "The story of the tale can be real or invented. If it is real, it must seem invented, and if it is
invented real
7. Why is it called THE WORD OF THE MUTE?

Because in most of my stories those who are in life are expressed.

deprived of speech, the marginalized, the forgotten, the condemned to an existence
Without harmony and without voice. Yoleshe restored that denied breath and allowed modulating.
his longings, his outbursts, and his anxieties.

8. In this case, existential problems abound, new feelings arise among which predominates the
frustration, the inferiority and the marginality of the characters What story does it refer to? Explain

9. What is the argument of The Featherless Buzzards?

The author tells the story of the brothers Efraín and Enrique, two children exploited by a
heartless grandfather, Don Santos, old and limping (with a wooden leg), who forces them to scavenge the
trash containers in search of food for their pig. Both children get sick but the
grandfather insists on making them work. Enrique takes care of all the work and brings home to
a dog to keep his brother company, who was more delicate. But the grandfather
Take advantage of Enrique's absence to kill the dog and give it as food to the pig. Enrique,
returns home, discovers the dog's remains and argues with his grandfather; he slips, his paw
The pole breaks and falls into the pigpen and due to its limp, it cannot get up.
Then the two brothers flee from that place, hearing the grandfather's screams in the distance.
The story ends by suggesting that the grandfather becomes a victim of his own pig.
10. According to the narrative plot (description, dialogue, and narration), mention examples of fragments.
a) Description
b) Dialogue
c) Narration
11. Analyze the main and secondary characters of 'The Featherless Buzzards'
Don Pascual Efrain Enrique
Boy Boy
Physical Aspect pig Younger Brother Elder Brother

What comes to be the +Sumiso Protector

representation of the Tramp Troubadour
Psychological Aspect and
society of Persevering Vulnerable
Moral
consumption of Vulnerable Persevering
capitalism in
decomposition.
Economic Situation hungry poverty poverty

11. Complete the organizer by analyzing the main character of the story Alienation.

MAIN CHARACTERS. The main characters of the story alienation

Roberto López. Son of a laundress, he was a short boy with curly hair who wanted to stop being
Zambo had an inferiority complex due to the color of his skin.
The Narrator: he tells the story

13. What is the theme of the story Alienation? Provide an example from your environment where this is manifested.
problem.

MAIN THEME. The main theme of the story alienation is the alienation of Roberto López and the
behaviors that cause this problem.

SECONDARY THEMES. The secondary themes of the story alienation are.

Indifference.
The hatred for his black skin.
Social Marginalization

14. Complete the organizer about 'The Banquet'.

THE BANQUET
Julio Ramón Ribeyro
Peruvian
LITERARY GENRE: Narrative.
Short story
LITERARY MOVEMENT A THE ONE BELONGING TO THE AUTHOR:
realism/generation of '50
LOCATION OF THE TEXT. The story the banquet belongs to the book of Tales
The Word of the Mute.
LITERARY ANALYSIS OF THE STORY THE BANQUET
ENVIRONMENT: It is the house of Mr. Fernando Pasamano, later converted into
a decorated and arranged house.
MAIN CHARACTER OF THE STORY THE BANQUET
. Don Fernando Pasamano: an ambitious man, interested and above all
irresponsible, he risked all his fortune to organize the banquet and ended up
the ruin.
SECONDARY CHARACTERS OF THE STORY THE BANQUET
. Wife of Don Fernando Pasamano.
. Japanese gardeners: building a new garden in the wild orchard of Mr.
Fernando Pasamano
. The president
. Ministers
. Diplomats
. Businessmen
. A goalkeeper
. Parliamentarians: congressmen
. Waiters
. Two orchestras
. Movie operator
. The snitches. People who were around the house to gossip
. Village Guests
MAIN THEME: Don Fernando's ambition to want to obtain a position,
and the irresponsibility of spending all his fortune from so many years of work.
SECONDARY THEMES:
. Vanity
. Pride
. Irresponsibility
15.- The grandfather, standing at the edge of the pigpen, looked towards the back. He seemed like a tree growing from his
wooden leg. Enrique made noise but the grandfather did not move.
Here are the cubes!
Don Santos turned his back and remained motionless
For Ribeyro, the grandfather symbolizes capitalism, the system that vilely exploits
the poor workers.
16.-The narrator is in the first person, he is a collector who tells that
found the badge in the dump, grew within the organization until
who managed to be President

In the tale of The Featherless Buzzards, what happened to Don?

Santos when he fell backwards into the pigsty? How?
What happened?

2. In the story The Badge, what interpretation would you give to the
history?
3. In the story The Banquet, why did Don fade away?
Fernando Pasamano after reading the newspaper headlines
What did your wife bring you?

4. What could "lamolicie" be in the story of the same name?

Explain based on the author's description.

In the story 'On the Rooftops,' what happened to the 'man of the...'
"lazy" at the end of the story?

The man gave him a little book so that he would remember it; but one afternoon his mother ...
he found it and scolded him and took it away; and he could not return to the rooftops. His mother
I always kept an eye on him. The classes distracted him a bit. But one day, determined to see him.
to his friend, he went up to the rooftop, and went to where his friend was, but he didn't see him,
he approached some crystals, and saw some men in black walking in the room.
Then he realized that his friend had died. This has been the summary of
tale over the rooftops

6. Who is Eusebio Zapatero in the story The Boss? Why not

Did he/she achieve his/her goal?

He was the accountant, letting him enjoy the exclusivity of the boss. But the
employees left and only the boss and Eusebio remained. Since it was more than
midnight, they left the bar, but when the boss saw the clock, he said it’s foolish, it isn’t
At one o'clock, let's drink a cognac; and they entered the bar 'Negro-Negro'. The boss began to
to enamor a woman, broke a glass, insulted the waiter. Eusebio felt that he was the
moment to ask for a raise.
And he said, sir attorney, no attorney, tell me Felipe good, the boss reproached.
Mr. Felipe Bueno, in these fifteen years that I have been working in the office. No
You talk to me about the office, Mr. Zapatero, we are celebrating. And so it went on until the
three in the morning drinking, and feeling comfortable. That Eusebio called him Pim,
because his boss told him that his wife calls him that, and he said Bito because his friend
they call it that.

7. What would your reflection be if you were Aníbal Hernández?

main character of the story Sparkling in the basement?
8. What was the annoyance that Mr. Memo García had about?
to die Lady Pancha, in the tale Sad quarrels in the old
fifth?

I remember as a single man used to a daily routine before the arrival.

from Lady Pancha

this peculiar character makes Memo gradually modify his routine, because the
Pancha's presence in the estate makes him uncomfortable, which is why Memo...
dedicate to spying on her to know her movements and try to avoid her

9. In the story Alignment, what was Queca's ending? Why?

10. In the story Next month I level up, what does it mean
It has the expression 'Yes, next month I will level up,' said by
Alberto? Try an interpretation according to the story read.

b) What ending would you give it? The ending would be that the grandfather, upon seeing his grandson sick, reflects and takes him to a clinic.
and the boy gets better, then Efraín and Enrique enroll in a school, they help their grandfather feed
Pascual, without hurry.

3. What is the outcome of the story?

Ten years passed after the protagonist served those of the secret circle and was promoted.
he became president, now he has a house in the resorts. However,
He never understood the meaning of the organization he is in charge of.