Flight Pepé Torres a lazy boy but also very polite who plays with his late father's switchblade, throwing the knife to the post all the time. Living with his siblings and his widow mother, Mama Torres. Mama Torres being a protective mother tells Pepé that he must take the horse and ride to Monterey for medicine and salt. Pepé shocked that she would tell him do such a thing. Mama Torres still believing that he is not a man yet but a peanut. As Pepé left his younger brother asked, “Did Pepé come to be a man.” Mama be as wise as she is said, “A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed.” But no matter how wise she was she could not foresee what would conspire in Pepé’s travel. When Pepé returned home in the middle of the night he changed. He didn’t seem fragile anymore, no laughter, his eyes with purpose. He told his mother he was called names he “could not allow” by a man. Where a fight escalated to a killing with the very same knife. His mother then nodded saying, “Thou art a man.” She then helps Pepé get items ready to go to the mountains. As he leaves she then starts crying, screaming knowing that he will not survive. As he was killed by an avalanche. So far out of few stories so far I say this is my favorite. In the story I like the complete character change Pepé had in the story. From just a boy who rather just sit and play with a knife to a man who is struggling to survive in the wilderness. He changed so drastically that even his mother who believed him nothing more than just a foolish boy has swayed her to believing he has become a man. What I didn’t appreciate, is that Pepé decided to flee to the mountains instead of facing his crime. Even if it's the 1930s and he may have been sentenced to death or life in prison, regardless that he died in the mountains which is karma. When Mama Torres helped him flee she was aiding and abetting a fugitive so she