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Rite of Passage: a rite of passage in this story may be the passing from childhood to adulthood of the protagonist as he starts decribing his youth and the experiences he had as a kid with his aunt, but then comes back to the present when he is much older and describes another important experience that is his aunt's death.  
Exposition: "His Great Aunt Mary had beenn dying for some days now.." "She had lost all the dignity he knew her to have" 
Conflict / Crisis, climax: "'You have been reading my letters'" "She trusck him across the side of the face." "'You are dirt' (...) 'I shall remember thiss till the day i die'"
Solution: "..she died.." "Tears came (...) cried silently (...) for the woman (...) that she might forgive him."
Characters: the way the characters relate to each other and their actions (boy going through his aunt's stuff in secret) create a tense atmosphere making an abrupt change in the middle of the story. The mother-son relationship is shown as cold or a little bit odd as well as the mother-daughter relationship. "Your aunt kept herself very muchto herself." The mother describes the way her sister related to others: being very reserved. [Lucila Giambruni]

---Grandmother-grandson relationship: "Don't be so inquisitive". There is something the grandson wants to know, he is interested but the grandmother doesn't want to tell him what is it. She is hiding something, this starts intrducing us to the main topic of the story: SECRETS. " 'Is he alive?' 'No, he's dead now. Watch the kettle doesn't run dry.' "  The grandson constantly wants to know more about this mysterious man that keeps appearing in the letters. He asks, but he doesn't get the reply he wants. Instead, his grandmother tries to abruptly change the topic of the conversation, but he isn't distracted. As he doesn't get the reply he wants, he waits until his grandmother is gone to read the letters because he knows his grandmother is hiding something. 
---Aunt - Niece relationship: "I don't know. Your aunt kept herself very much to herself". This quotation shows that the aunt and the niece weren't so clos. The niece didn't know much about her aunt, and her aunt didn't want to tell her. [CATA RELA]

I believe that there is rite of passage because it generally involves a breaking of the law or of a rule and in the short story, the boy ignores the fact that his aunt had forbidden him from opening her letters and reads them anyway. But I also believe that it is not completed and that the character is in the middle of the process because according to Van Gennep, the last stage of rite of passage is reincorporation, which involves being reintegrated to a social group but as a new person. In this case, that would happen if the boy told or his family found out that he had read and knew his aunt’s secret but would still accept him as this new person that has learned a secret. 
Exposition: in the first paragraph, although the boy is not introduced with a thorough description explaining who he was, the narrator already focuses on him by referring to him in second person. ”His Great Aunt Mary had been dying for some days now”, his aunt is also mentioned in the second sentence of the story and some information about the setting is also given in the following paragraphs such as the description of the house’s atmosphere,  for instance, that there were many relatives praying.
Conflict: “‘Anything else, yes! That section, no!’”, the conflict begins when the aunt forbids her nephew from reading her letters which creates suspense and leaves the reader wondering what will happen regarding this.
Crisis: “‘You are dirt,’ she hissed, ‘and always will be dirt. I shall remember this till the day I die.’”, the climax occurs when Mary finally finds him reading her letters and is furious. What makes the moment even more climatic is that the aunt and the boy seemed to have a pretty close relationship but with this incident the bond seems to have broken.
Solution: in my opinion there wasn’t a solution regarding the conflict between the boy and his aunt because she died and as far as I understood they never got a chance to talk to solve things. [FLOR ARAYA]

The rito of passage in the story is present but it is not complete, in my opinion there is a part of the stages which is not fully done. 
The first stage is Separation or isolation, which is when the boy left his studying to go and read the letters of his aunt Mary, so he went and locked himself and took the letters and read them. The second stage of rite of passage is the transition, the oy realized he is doing something wrong by reading the letters which were hidden and protected by elastic bands so he had to transpass the "law" to do something he wanted to, He knew it was wrong but he did it anyway. The last stage is the reincorporation to the society, this one is the one which for me is  not complete because I cant find any moment or clue which makes me realized this had happeded. 
Exposition: "had been dying for some days now and the house was full of relatives.”
Conflict:  “ Anything else, yes! That section, No! “
Climax: ‘You are dirt’ she hissed, ’and always will be dirt. I shall remember this till the day I die’
“She took off the elastic band and put it to one side with the useful things and began dealing the envelopes into the fire. She opened one and read quickly through it, then threw it on top of the burning pile “ 
Solution:  "he felt a hardness in his throat… Tears came into his eyes… and he cried silently into the crook of his arm for the woman who had been his maiden aunt, his teller of tales, that she might forgive him"
(Catu Grosso)

The character is in the middle of the process. Separation is present when the kid goes into his aunt’s bedroom. Transition is present when he discovers his aunt secret. Incorporation is not present in the story.
Exposition: “Mary had been dying for some days” 
Conflict: “That section no”
Crisis: “You are dirt and always will be dirt”
Solution: “Before she died, did she say anything about me?” “No  that I know.”
Aunt-Nephew relationship. The grandmother is hiding a secret which he does not want her grandson to see but finally the grandson finds by reading her letters
Nicolas Monguzzi

Bautista Olaizola

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LUNA PEREZ MUÑIZ
The character completes the rite of passage since step 1 is present: Separation. He gets isolated to go and look for the letters. Here, he also breaks a boundarie. He stops doing homework, he leaves aside his duties to go and look for the letters. Step 2 i present too: Transition. According to Van Gennep when transition takes place, the character may disguise (and he does, when he goes carefully to look for what he is looking for), break taboos (when reading the letters that were hidden on purpose), or go through a revelation of truth (and he does when he finds out what the letters say). After this step, comes the Incorporation as this new person: after the boy saw his aunt become upset because of what he did to her (discover her secret), he may have felt sad and he m ay have regreted it. Because in the present of the story, when the boy remembers all this event, he does not seem so happy. And he also was reincorporated to society since he has grown up and is not a lonely wolf. 
The aunt ant the beggining says to his nephew while she lets him read the envelopes: "Everything else, yes! That section, no!". This is were the situation begins because then the boy starts having the desire of knowing what is it that is forbidden. What is that so important thing that he can not look into?!. 
The conflict comes when he starts looking for the letters and opens the drawer with the keys. Also when the sunlight focuses through the window as enlightning the boy. 
The climax is clearly when the aunt discovers her nephew sneaking through her letters. "You have been reading my letters"
The conclusion would be at the very end, but in the present tense of the story, after the flashback. When the grown up boy asks "Did aunt Mary say anything about me?" The reader, from that question can notice that he has been suffering through all this years for something he had done so long ago, but as Mary had died, the secret had died with her and the issue was concluded finally. Not until the issue was concluded, he took the courage to ask about the aunt.  
The aunt-son relationship was a special one. They really had a bond. "She would sit with him on her knee, her arms around him..."
The mother-son relationship is not that especified but it seems to be a close one too. since he has the guts to talk to her about her dead sister. 
LUNA PEREZ MUNIZ
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