The Third Bank of the River is describes a man that decides to float eternally on his boat, just besides his family's house. The master piece of Brazilian magic realism, this story describes an endless transition searching for an illusion. The contrast between the amazing concreteness and beauty of the river and the personal conflicts of death and life makes impossible to define if the man is still a man or just a vision.
Latin America seems to endeavor on a parallel endless transition; from authoritarianism to formal democracy, from nationalism to liberalism, but as the man in the river, it is not clear if the results are not only a fabrication. Sometimes the continent looks like it lost its soul. This essay is an attempt to denounce it and search for the character of Latin American democracy, or the government of its destiny by its people.
Unfortunately the boy blamed himself for his father's actions. He thinks that his dad never loved him and he thinks that he left, because he wasn't a good son. I f the son had experienced the love and support from his dad throughout his life, this would of had a big impact in his future. Life would of mean something to him, instead he blamed himself for something that he was not responsible for.
