'Miguel Street Essay\r'

'Discuss the representation of military personnel and hu worldly concernness in the 2 condensed stories of Miguel Street. On Miguel Street, the representation of man and man lout can be seen negatively in these two short stories” â€Å"Bogart” and â€Å"A social occasion without a name”. Where as a man’s manhood is considered tough if certain citationistics such as aggression, evading the law and their present living circumstances. The story nigh Bogart illustrates where his manhood being threaten where as Bogart is unable to father a claw by his Tunapuna married woman so he finds a means to escape this difficulty. He goes elsewhere, run a â€Å" racy-class” brothel, meets another(prenominal) woman and successfully impregnates. Once he has achieved his goal of proving his virility, he may sink to Miguel Street although he returns as a bigamist as Hat would say â€Å"To be a man, among we man”.\r\nHe would today be seen as a high stan ding man of the community, playing with the contact children and giving them parties, which is a vastly distinct from the life he once had by pretending to be a foreshorten but now is seen The main character in â€Å"A thing without a name â€Å" Popo is a carpenter by profession but he is not considered a man among his peers as his wife was the main breadwinner of the family which did not bothered him as he would continue to make â€Å"a thing without a name”. This but changed when Popo wife left him for another man, it is thus that he was accepted as â€Å" angiotensin converting enzyme of the gang â€Å"within Miguel Street, as they could connect to his pain and heart ache. His man hood was however bruised by the separation of his wife , so he would then retaliate by fighting the other man and going to prison, which eventually made him an champion on Miguel street.\r\n'