The function of the letter from Luis Cervantes to Venancio
in Part 3, Chapter 1, of The Underdogs serves the function of
pointing out the alternatives to fighting and the futility of unreasoned choices.
Cervantes suggests the irrationality that underpins the peasants unreasoning devotion to
the revolution when he expresses in his letter that he is not surprised that Pancracio
and Manteca killed each other something so banal, so trivial, as gambling. In
juxtaposition to this he draws a picture of hope and luxurious nurturing life by
suggesting they open a restaurant in the United
States.
Additionally, it causes the revolutionaries to
begin to question and reason since they know that the Federation they began the fight to
oppose has been defeated. In juxtaposition to this stands the suggestion of the decaying
futility of unreasoned actions once set in motion. This idea is highlighted by the
comparison in The Underdogs between Demetrio--who has a peasants
unreasoned for the revolution--and Navera--who has a knowledgeable commitment to the
facts and ideology of the revolution.
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