The reason why Horacio Quiroga is called the Edgar Allan Poe of South America is because that is who Quiroga’s earliest influence of writing came from. Quiroga shows a morbid obsession with death and violence just like Edgar Allan Poe does in his writings.
“El conductor del rápido” states that 108 conductors were admitted to a mental institution. An insane asylum is a psychiatric hospital that specializes in the treatment of serious mental illnesses. I believe the purpose of an insane asylum is to keep the patient safe as well as the people that the patient may come in contact with. The narrator of this story is in an insane asylum who thinks he is still he works on the train because he has dementia. He goes to the doctor to get examined which he thinks the doctors visit is part of the train company. The rapid conductor leaves the fate of the train up to the train itself so he puts the speed range all the way to a high point of 248 miles per hour. The narrator cannot take it anymore so he puts on the red breaks which he saves the train as well as 125 lives because the narrator says that we feel a sense of duty that is deeply rooted in a nature of man.
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