Blanca laughed at the story and said it was impossible, because hens are born stupid and weak and foxes are born astute and strong, but Pedro Tercero did not laugh. He spent the whole evening absorbed in thought, ruminating on the story of the fox and the hens, and perhaps that was the night the boy began to become a man.
One of my mother’s crazy cousins used to tell the story of a bunch of hens that were attacked at night by a fox. After several of them perished and others were maimed, they decided to get together and confront the fox. They gather all their courage and the following night they all jumped on the fox and pecked him to death. To me, (and to Pedro Tercero in the novel) this is metaphor for social justice. The weak, the poor, the victims, can turn their fate around if they act together against the predator. Pedro Tercero is one of the protagonists in the novel. The inspirations for this character were some of the idealistic young men and women who in the 70s believed that a revolution could change the world.
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