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Themes Of Just Lather That's All

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One of the themes from Hernando Tellez 's “Just Lather that 's all” is that different humans have different abilities and capabilities to complete tasks in life. This theme relates to my life because I may think about many actions to fulfill a reaction, but it only goes as far as just a thought, but since life is very lengthy I may get frustrated and do actions without thinking about the consequences. The barber is struggling good and bad within himself, but his goodness overcomes his badness at the end, which shows by him not putting his thoughts into actions. The barber has a job of the town that he really cares about and is trying to take on abilities of the captain of killing which he is not capable of doing. On the other hand, the

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