Who is the narrator of this story? How does this narrator distinguish between false and true "Americans"? What did "American" mean in this story at the time it was written, and in what ways is Murieta "American"?
Narrator: the author's omniscient voice
Point of view: third person
The story starts with portraying Murieta as hopeful youth admiring Americans and moving to America in search of better life. He is soon met with cruel disappointed, being treated less than a human being because of looking different from his admired Americans. He faces cruel and unjust punishment and degradation and experiences the cruelest fate by witnessing his brother's unjust murder and violation of his loved one which serves as a breaking point, and transforms him into a vicious outlaw out for revenge. The story ends with a rhetorical question about how the poor Rosita could have lived a happy life with her loved one, had a man not wronged his fellow man.
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