Before the arrival of Belisa, the colonel was the most feared man in all of the land. All he knew was violence and war because that is all that he had experienced. He had nobody that agreed with him, and nobody that liked him because of his violent personality. What must it be like to be so ignorant and alone? The best comparison to the colonel is Dulce from “An Act of Vengeance.” The reason these two are so similar is because of how much each of them changed. The colonel changed from a bad man to a good man, while Dulce changed from wanting revenge on Tadeo to falling in love with him.
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If Belisa was not reached, the colonel would have stayed sad and alone without any love in his heart or goal in sight. His sadness and loneliness is shown before his transformation. It is easy to see how it affects him as a man and a character. After the transformation, the colonel was a good man with lots of love in his heart. All he knew was war and violence, but he transformed those feelings into feelings of love and kindness. The colonel transcended because he surpassed all expectations. He went from a violent man with a life full of war to a man that was able to run for