Analysis of "El Hijo" by Horacio Quiroga

Fictional Short Story

Omniscient

Exposition

Setting

Temporal

Spatial

Characters

Father

Son

Rising Action

Son does not come
back after hunting

Climax

Father hallucinates
about son's death

Falling Action

Father finds son
in jungle

Resolution

Reader realizes that
son is actually dead.
Father's conversation
was an illusion.