letter to carpentier

Dear Alejo

             Hello, my name is Matt Chamlee i have been reading you book Kingdom Of This World. I wanted to ask you a question about something in your novel. I was wondering if you could clarify Ti Noel's metamorphesis threw out the book. Did Ti Noel's metamorphesis from normal man to heightened senses and eventually different animals symbolize anything deeper, and relate back to events in the book, or were they just random acts of magic with no deeper meaning?
  
             My personal thoughts on the matter are that when he turns into the goose, it symboizes his innocense at that point of the book. When he turns into the vulture at the end , I thought it symbolizes the death and destruction that had occured since the metamorphesis begain. "From that moment Ti Noel was never seen again, nor his green coat with the salmon lace cuffs except perhaps by that wet vulture who turns every death to his own benfit and who sat with outspread wings, drying himself in the sun, a cross of feathers which finally folded itself up and flew off into the thick shade of Bois Caiman." This quote about when Ti Noel morphs into the vulture is thought also was a metaphore for how Ti Noel uses the death and destruction at the end of the book for his own advantage, and either escaped or litterally became a vulture. But the vulture also could symbolize a clensing. Vulture clean up the dead, and use it for their own nourishment, so maybe the vulture symbolized the end of the old and the beginning of the new like the pheonix mentioned earlier in the book.

             All of this is just my speculation, but i really appriciate you reading my letter and considering my thoughts on these matters. I would love to hear back from you even though your dead.

                                                                                                            Roll Tide
                                                                                                                  Matt Chamlee