Lazarillo de Tormes was a child raised by experiences not by parenting. It was these experiences that taught him to be resourceful to survive. The result of these resources shaped the course of his life. Even his name was given to him from an experience resulting from his birth nearby a river. When Lazarillo worked with the Blind Man, “who was so close-fisted and stingy” that he almost starved him to death. But, he was able to survive, “if [he] hadn’t managed to get along on [his] own wits and ingenuity there were many times when I would have perished of hunger” (12). The Blind Man provided Lazarillo with crucial life lessons to help develop a foundation of values that helped him survive with his other masters. Specifically, in the following scene, the Blind Man wanted to teach him a lesson of his own on deception:
“when I had my jug leaking as before … the desperate blind man perceived that now was his time to take vengeance of me, … he let it fall upon my mouth, making use (as I say) of all his strength, so that poor Lazaro, who was expecting none of this, but, as at other times, was careless and joyful … Such was the gentle tap he gave me that it stupefied and knocked me senseless” (18)
The truth is Lazarillo was molded by that experience. In the wine episode, Lazarillo ends up having the wine jar smashed on his face; he doesn’t suffer physically after the grape incident but learns a valuable lesson on deception. Having suffered enough at the hands of the blind man, Lazarillo is determined to move on. The blind man ends up half dead on the ground after crashing into a stone pillar. Lazarillo’s parting words are “‘You could smell the sausage but not the post,’ I said to him, ‘why didn’t you smell the post? Smell it now! Smell it now!’” (31-32) It’s Lazarillo’s first clear victory, taking us back at the same time to Lazarillo’s initiation into life with the bull incident. The circle is complete; the blind man has no more to teach him. As you can see, Lazarillo was shaped by his experiences for the better and worse.
Lazarillo De Thomas is a model of a hero in the old Spin days, he is that poor and unlucky child who was born in the mail grain, lost hid father soon after he opened up his eyes to the complicated world and left his mother while he had only 11 years. In experienced the grave life “The home there is not talk, no eating and no drink” in the earth’s surface. He did not only tolerated that situation of grave life, but being on that situation he started to helping out his master by giving him food “splitting his begged food” with him. he was starving to death but he was generous, he had the humanity and felling. he did not experience receiving love from his family but start giving out generosity for those in need.
Despite the other sides “comic, trickster” of the book, the charterer of Lazarillo represent a hero.