The Circuit

Life is like a baseball game, it throws you some curve balls and strikes, but you always have to expect the bad ones. That’s how life is, it can be a challenge but you can succeed at anything if you put your mind to it and once you do it’ll feel like you’re on top of the world. You have to do something with your life and be ready for anything because life is full of surprises you won’t know what’s coming next.

You arrive at home after school. You walk through the door to find a huge tower of boxes. You aren’t sure why. Suddenly this exact scene seems familiar like a sudden rush of Déjà vu. You realize that you have to move once again. Expect the unexpected this, is the theme or point of the story “The Circuit”. Panchito’s life is like a circuit the same things happen again and again, though he does want to get out of the circuit and do something different with his life, but he doesn’t want to except the truth. The truth is that is the circuit will always repeat its self until he does something. It’s like being trapped in a light bulb. You go up the wire loop around and come back down again and again. It’s a life that we all want to avoid, luckily we always have hope.

You hear the soft rumble of the up coming bus. You are ordered by your father to run and hide. You bend down and hope that the bus didn’t see you because you’re suppose to be at school. You walk back to your father slowly and realize that you need to get out of the endless horrific rows of strawberries and do something with your life. This refers to a scene in “The Circuit” Panchito and his brother run when they see the bus, but really they are running away from their only hope. Panchito needs to get out of the circuit and take a chance in school. He does take a chance and he realized that he is happy and his life is good, but the unexpected arrives. They have to move again, that means the circuit starts all over again.

As if their life is on a circuit they have to move multiple times never staying in one place, always having to rebuild their life. Their life is not only a circuit it also follows the tragic plot line. First off they have to leave what they have built up in their life behind and start over. When they move life gets better for Panchito. He takes a risk, a chance, and follows the only hope to school. This is the rise to power. At school he decides not to read in front of the class, and this is his tragic flaw. The tragic fall in his life is the fact that he starts doing well in school. Panchito is enjoying himself until he comes home one day. He is moving again. This story is mainly written in the winter setting, also when they are about to move a dog is barking in the background, both of these are tragic symbols which indicates this story is a tragedy.

You have to do something with your life or else you’ll be trapped in a light bulb, forever until you take hold of your life and make something happen. Don’t strike out in the game of your life like Panchito, and always expect the unexpected.