Desert Fighting

This is an excerpt from one of the letters to David. It has a theme I intend to explore here over time.

Don Juan is a most sentimental man. He has the fear of change deep in him; the fear of penance, or the outright rejection of it. Or the lonely fear and resignation that comes in the unfulfilled promise of approaching the fulfilling thing. Perhaps he never asked his father, for fear, if he might love him. Perhaps he needed to know. Perhaps he knew. Perhaps the Man denied him, ignored him, and accused him in his innocence.

Tragic scene of the fourteen year old boy having his spit swabbed for his mother’s case for child support moves to scene of boy in courthouse, missing school, complaining, worried he might miss school for first time in years and might see Man. Move to scene of boy playing baseball, not knowing Man is in stands, and striking out each at-bat. Tears Follow. There is, here established, the boy’s desire to please the society by working in and fulfilling its norms in attempt to please said culture that is so connected to rejecting Man.

Does boy ever make it into Man’s Waffle House at the appointed hour?

Or does he die in a foreign desert, fighting, knowing his fight is unjust, for the society that rejected him?