God Go Begging by Alfredo Vea Analysis
The Shed of Masculinity In “God Go Begging” by Alfredo Vea Someone once said," Your body is not who you are. You shed it like a snake sheds its skin. We transfer the human consciousness between bodies to live an eternal life " (Altered Carbon 2018-2020). In other words, the author argues that the body and its skin becomes a social construction that traps and labels the individual to a form of prison or deadly war zone that the individual needs to outgrown or dispose of if they want to evolve, live or reproduce. Indirectly, the destruction of this label and damage shed is predicated on the transition from the external decay of the body as a shell that must be destroyed into the expansion of a consciousness that would provide an escape among individuals as a form of love and creativity where life is possible instead of violence. In the novel “ God Go Begging ,” the author Alfredo Vea uses the literary element of setting to imprison the protagonists Jesse and Calvi...