“And the Earth Did Not Devour Him”
The part “And the Earth Did Not Devour Him” is about the outrage of Marcos against God. He starts to question God’s sense of fairness after his relatives’ death, and her father and brother get sunstroke. He feels very angry experiencing all these and seeing his mother upset. After all these when he sees that his mother lit candles he questions this action, how could the candles help his father, because praying did not help his uncle and aunt. Marcos thinks that the nature, thus God is unfaithful. Marcos says: “All the time feeding the earth and the sun, only to one day, just like that, get struck by the sun… why, God doesn’t care about us…” At this point Marcos is starting to lose his religion. After his brother gets sunstroke too he goes one step further and curses God. He is both angry and fearful, he hallucinates that the earth is going to swallow him, however it does not, which is a proof for Marcos that God does not exist. After this surreal moment he feels at peace because he now believes that God is not apparently cursing him, that God may not exist at all.