At
the beginning of this book, Barbarita, who will be Jacinta´s mother
in law, takes part in the education of her Juanito very seriously and
she helps him with his homework each day. Nowadays, she would have
attended at the meeting with the tutor of Juanito at the beginning of
the term and who knows if she would have belonged to the AMPA. She
also helped him with Latin. I admit that I don´t understand the
thing about the Retiro lion which appears in this text.It´s also
remarkable that the first appararition of Fortunata in this novel is
eating a raw egg, as Rocky Balboa in his breakfasts.
She
also trained his memory, absolving it of useless hodgepodge, and she
used to make him understand elementary arithmetic
with the aid of garbanzos or beans—she wasn't very comfortable with
those abstractions any other way.To explain natural history, the
teacher often resorted to the lion in the Retiro Park. It was
only chemistry that left them motionless. They would gaze
at each other blankly and she would end up by getting him to memorize
the formulae, having observed that only pharmacists understand these
things, and that anyway it all boils down to whether you add more
or less water ...
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