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costarricense: number (mujeres).

 la idea que mujeres : la idea+preposition+que+article+mujeres

a la idea : a: borra

que las mujeres les : que+preposition (to them)+las mujeres+  (impersonal: I mean the conjugation of the verb is perfect  but as we are giving an impersonal idea, you will need something else)+ les+considera.

como ser en el fondo: I do not understand this idea... can you explain more? Quotes from academic sources, please.

 a esclavos judíos: de esclavos judíos. Interesting connection...

Egipto: this is the name of the country. But you need the word Egyptians here (in Spanish).

Jesús quien: Jesús, quien

fue encontrado por un carpintero: Jesus was not found by a carpenter... At least, the New Testament does not explain that...

el lo pone: el: acento.

on Lope y Jesús: Now I see what you mean... I think in the "fue encontrado por un carpintero" is not a similarity, but the way he was put on a barn...

Esto es el comienzo: in this case we are not talking about a generalization, a fact, so "Esto" should be different as it is related to "el comienzo". Esta is the femenine, but how is the masculine? And no, the swer is not Esto...

quien no : quien (Number) as the parents are two (plural).

en quedar: en +article+conector+quedarse

que quedan: que se quedan

este comparación: comparación es femenino so este should be...

afretado: spelling

será: condicional...

tambien: acento.

Jesus and his parables: the link is fine, but write this in Spanish

Good Shepherd": write this in spanish and add the link to the wikipedia in Spanish, please.http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buen_Pastor

del semilla : semilla is feminine, why "del"?

un cuento: we usually use this as a synonymous of "fiction short story", but for any kind of story, in general, we use "historia". I think historia is more appropriate in this context.

esta referido a mucho en la Biblia: esta: acento referido: linked, bounded, connected...+ mucho+a + la Biblia.

semilla is femenine, why este?

se empieza: empieza (the story) so this can not be a reflexive.

el punto: delete

pequeño: semilla is feminine.

los otros: this is related to semilla, which is feminine. 

se empieza muy pequeño: erase "se"+ empieza+ being+ muy pequeño (género, as semilla is feminine).

con absolutamente nada: sin absolutamente nada. In Spanish we have double negations, I know, this is silly but this is how our language is...

a el Sagrado: a+el=al

los raíces: raíces is feminine, so "los" should be...

de el : del

se manda por el: "se" delete. manda (what thing? maybe to go)+a+por+el(acento).

se manda por el: erase "se" manda (what thing? maybe to go?) + a+por+ el (acento).

(Matute) : page? Also, there is a very cool quote tool, maybe you will like it... I do not know...this is just a suggestion.

al semilla: semilla is feminine, why al?

grade: spelling

frutas: this is fine, but here, when we talk about the fruits we received from the labor we say it in masculine: frutos. Also... what about Adam (Adán) as the first man who got the fruits of his labor?

se empezó: delete "se"

se floreció: delete se

se regresa: se (delete)

al la casa: why al? al is a+el

todo fue quitado de el: todo+ Indirect Object Pronoun: fue quitado (delete: de él).

había decidió: había sido+ decidir (participle).

 y el se robo:  y: delete el: delete se: delete conector+indirect object pronoun+había +robar (the participle).

y es mucho: y: delete.

impacto a: impacto: Subject Verb Agreement (efectos psicológicos is plural) a: en

aparentes: obvious (in Spanish).

se mata : he is not killing himself. This is not a reflexive verb: delete "se".

There is another reason you are missing here... I will help you with that.

(Pennington) and the página?

fixed expressión: a ojos de los demás.

miraba como estaba: same tense, different verb: parecer+estar (infinitive) bien

 dio trabajo y comida: conector+pronombre de objeto indirecto+ dio trabajo y comida

el matando: el+infinitivo (verb Form).

+ a su tío

de el escapando todo eso que esta forzado en el: de+el=del del+(Verb Form) + de+ todo eso que+pronombre de objeto indirecto+ esta (acento) forzando. en el: delete.

cazo: i is interesting you have some spelling mistakes that are very common in heritage (native) speakers... cazo is a small pot, caso is case... this mistake on z vs s is very very native heritage speakers. Strange...

su tío mal y: mal: delete.

escapando una vida: escapando de una vida

nos podemos: nos: delete

como el ciclo: como: acento.

se continua: se: delete

abuso: acento.

cuido: acento

a Lope: de Lope

el usa: el: acento

Well, as I told in one of my notes in the text, there is something you are missing here: and it is the key of the short story what you are missing, although your analysis is excellent. 

Take a look to this sentence when Lorenzo, the teacher talks to Emeterio about Lope: "Lo malo -dijo don Lorenzo, rascándose la oreja con su uña larga y amarillenta- es que el chico vale. Si tuviera medios podría sacarse partido de él. Es listo. Muy listo. En la escuela..."

And then, let's take a look to moment when the story gets the climax. Something operates a change in Lope, who was a strong and a peaceful shepherd: this is the moment when Lope and Manuel Enríquez meet after 5 years. In that time life changed. Francisca got married, and has 3 children, and when Manuel Enríquez saw him he talks to him. Lope does not recognizes him, also: "¿Quién podía entender lo que decía? ¡Qué acento tan extraño tienen los hombres, qué raras palabras salen por los oscuros agujeros de sus bocas! Una sangre espesa iba llenándole las venas, mientras oía a Manuel Enríquez."

When Lope and Manuel Enríquez were children Manuel always was in disadvantage. "Entonces vio a Manuel Enríquez, el compañero de la escuela que siempre le iba a la zaga".

But now, after 5 years, Francisca is married and is a mother of three. Manuel is becoming a lawyer...while he is strong and brute as an animal, as he did not contact any other human being for 5 years. Only animals were his company, so he forgot how to socialize...

There is a paragraph in the story where the reader can see the difference between the modern and cultivated man Manuel Enríquez, the less intelligent boy in school, now becoming a lawyer and the smart kid and now rude and ignorant shepherd Lope...

So, my question here is... what's the role of education?

Who has more opportunities in life? That is the key of this story. You should explore that topic as it was an obsession for writers like Ana María Matute who were left progressive intellectuals who thought education was able of changing the destiny of those in the lower class...

So, when Lope kills his uncle... that is more than a criminal action or a heroic act to restore a lost order even with fatal or dark consequences... This killing is a political act. Lope is killing the man who slaves him, who provides a good life to his beloved ones but exploiting others just for the mere fact of money and power. Emeterio is a cacique (tyrant) who owns the land (he is the alcalde, the major, almost the señor of the village). Matute says that he hated Lope's father... Between the lines readers can understand this hating probably was because of political differences between them. So Emeterio represents the fascist (who won the civil war) while Lope's father and his family are those who lost it. So, the brutality and cruelty  Emeterio shows with Lope is not only a representation of that conflict, but a vey good painting about Spain and its political forces during the dictatorship and how those who lost the war were treated by winners (specially local tyrants like Emeterio). 

Maybe you can add something about this... just a little bit. Try to explore the role of education and the murder as a political action...

As you said, violence begets violence (la violencia engendra violencia) but this a the micro-story and a warning: a brutal and cruel political system as a dictatorship only can get a violent response. Also, Lope  is ignorant  thanks to his uncle who condemned him to illiteracy, but he is not stupid. He knows that murder was written in his destiny. The end "sí, sí.sí" is not only the words of a man who can not say "no". It is also the only word permitted in a dictatorship where there is an absolute lack of freedom. 

The rest of people do not realize about the poor life conditions of Lope probably just because at that time people avoided those whoduring the war were confronting fascist. And because they as well as their families were rejected and marginalized bu those who got power during the war.

es el espina (espina es femenino, why "el"

como : acento

impacto: use perjudicar, same tense (and with the accent.

podré: wrong word.

pero: sino

guío la historia con sus paralelismos con Jesús y la Biblia: this is not made by Lope but by the author...

pinto: acento.

un imagen muy claro : imagen es femenino why "un"? and why "claro"?

los similares: search similarity in wordrefernce.com

fue algo que era en: just "estaba"

La violencia estaba en todas partes.

en analizar: al analizar

quien fue la amada: quien: acento.

Tambien ambose poetas estan enamoradisimos de su amada: Tambien (acento) estan (acento( enamoradisimos (acento) de sus respectivas mujeres ideales.

por que creen que la amada fue hecha solamente para ellos: porque....

esta, no son felices.: esta: acento.

 mucho en comun : comun: acento.

 solia: solía

carta anonimas: anónimas e splural, carta debe ser plural.

escribia con descricion para que nadie supiera quien era la destinaria de sus cartas amorosas por que la dama solia estar casada: escribía con la discreción para que nadie....quién era la destinataria.... , porque laa dama solía...

Escrbia: Spelling y acento.

aveces exoticos: a veces exóticos

en "La voz", , en La voz a ti debida, 

el describe : el: acento.

biem detallada: biem: spelling.

que el : el: acento.

 y simplemente a ella : , y simplemente a ella,

titulos: acento (esdrújula).

el la reconocera por ella por que ella se descatara.: 1. el: acento. 2. reconocera: acento (aguda). 3. por ella, 4. porque ella

5. descatara: spelling + acento.

tambien: acento.

presentara sin ningun titulo: 1. prsentara: acento. 2. ningun: acento 3. titulo: acento.

le dira: dira: acento.

ue el es el y simplemente el: acentos en "el".

 descripcion : acento (aguda).

el epoca Edad Media: la Edad Media.

tatica: acento (esdrújula).

es pronombres: Subject Verb Agreement: pronombres es `plural, así que el verbo, debe ser plural, también.

super : esta palabra tiene dos sílabas: su-per. La sílaba tónica (la que pronunciamos con más fuerza) es la segunda, cuando contamos desde el final. Este tipo de palabras se llaman "llanas", y cuando no acaban en n, s o vocal, tienen acento: súper.

sin perjuicios: wrong word.perjuicio means damage. How is prejudgment in Spanish? www.wordreference.com

articulo: acento (esdrújula)

la formula : formula, acento.

razon : acento.

lo usan que es : lo usan, y que es

la hiperboles : las hipérboles

el juegue: el: acento.

(pagina 14): (nombre del autor/autora del artículo + número de página)

musicos usan pronombres: los músicos.

liricas: traducción literal del inglés. la palabra que necsitas es "letras".

cancion se dedicada a alguien pero no sabremos a quien: canción esté dedicada a alguien, pero no sabremos a quién

por que su cancion es anonima: porque su canción está destinada a una amante anónima.

una cancion: acento.

cancion: acento.

por que alguna: porque

tambien: acento.

rompe cabeza: la palabra es "rompecabezas" todo junto, pero aquí, yo diría: "ella es la pieza que le hacía falta".

hacia: hacía, con acento.

incorporacion: es una palabra aguda: acento.

medico: esdrújula, necesita acento

filosofo: esdrújula, necesita acento.

pensa-miento: pensamiento

teoria: teoría

medica: esdrújula, necesita acento.

transfusion: aguda, acento.

sanguinea: acento.

topico: acento, porque es esdrújula

imaginacion: acento porque aguda

memo-ria.: memoria

eso de como: borra (delete)

teoria cientifica: teoría científica (las dos con acento)

filosofo: acento (es esdrújula).

escribio: acento (aguda)

un libro llamada: un libro es masculino, why llamada? Cambia el género...

existe dos tipos de amores: dos tipos de amores es plural, pero existe es singular... debes cambiar existe (Subject Verb Agreement).

por que: porque

 pasion: acento (aguda)

solo sera : sera (acento, es aguda)

si no: this means yes no lo que necesitas aquí es "sino".

tambien: acento (aguda)

divino: this is related to "la pasión", que es femenino, por tanto, no puede ser divino, sino...