My Response to Alexis's Blog #7

Great blog! I love how you made those connections to their song! :) I think Demetrio was in the middle of what both of you, Grace and Alexis, are saying. Demetrio, obviously, didn't take in as much of the looting and sexual assaults as his men did, but yet, Grace, you have a good point. But you have to remember that someone burned his house down. Now, I'm not saying that it is right to take revenge,  definitely not! I think Azuela is getting at 2 different viewpoints during this scene. As you said, we don't know if the family is still inside. The hopeful side of the reader would say, no they were able to get out. A house takes a while to burn down. But yet, the revenge side of the reader wants them to suffer. But I would also agree in a way. If he truly wasn't like his men, why didn't he stop it? Why didn't he control the looting and violence? Set standards? He was the general. But then again, Azuela is trying to portray what happened during the revolution. So, I guess, I don't really know how I view Demetrio. I see him as the hope of the revolution, the foundation which everyone else veered off from. He was wrong, and he was right.