Ingles

Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
Ministry of Popular Power for Education
University Village "Pedro Julio Maninat"






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Luisa Bracho

Morelis Gil




A man named Simon Bolivar.
     Simon Jose Antonio de la Santisima Trinidad Bolivar y Ponte Palacios y Blanco born in Caracas July 24th of 1.783, this General and Venezuelan statesman, commander of the Americanemancipation, fruit of the love between Juan Vicente of Bolivar y Ponte and Maria de la Concepcion Palacios y Blanco, lived the first years of his life with his parents under the special care of a slave of the family nicknamed by affection La Negra Matea.
     Toward the year of 1.790 dies the father of Simon, for that then, he was a sapling of 7 years dressed of green satin and fittings, and helooked at icily, tiredly perhaps; to the ladies and gentlemen that went and came between the big curtains of silk, by the cabinets of mahogany or under the trees of the patio. Between that noisy envrioment from time to time the eyes of the boy settled in his mother, dressed of black silk, pale, pretty and always a little sick. It was that year when Simon conquered his first horse and those thataround him were marveled seeing like he was had in the seat. During forty years, almost until his death the horses accompanied the life of Bolivar.
     Suddenly the fate, for senior time, undid a garment of happiness in the hands of a boy: that hardly had nine years when he lost his mother, who had just completed the 30, and at fifteen had gotten married to a man 15 years older, thereby Marialeft orphan to her four children. It was then when the uncle Palacios brought the Simon boy to the city and trusted his manners to the clergymen. Caracas, although similar to a garden and located in a beautiful valley, looked like tothe boy only dirty and noisy; his brother and his two sisters lived with other relative. Toward 1.793 Simón Rodríguez, admiring fervent of Rosseau, decided to search foran "Emilio" who could be the natural man of Rosseau.
     One could not explain, exactly like it would happen in a novel, that they had given the boy in his hands for error or for his uncle's indifference. The sure, it is that, starting from that day began a new life, very solitary for the boy thanks to the natural state where he had been placed by his new teacher and friend. During those fouryears that are lacking precise datas, the young boy learned to doubt everything that he had been taught of and to aspire to all the ideas that, in that then were spread all over the the world. Much time later, Bolívar wrote to Simón Rodríguez "I could not erase never at least a comma of the big sentences that you have given to me, always present to my intellectual eyes, I have followed them likecertain guides."
     The successor of Rodríguez like teacher of Bolivar, Andres Bello (later a great poet), hardly was a little older than his pupil, but he never had on him the influence that reached the first teacher and his lessons lasted just a year. Bolivar was 15 years old when, with a lot of money and many letters of recommendation, he abandoned for first time his country, in order to becomea man of world, further of the seas.
      So to the time "El Libertador" knew a woma named Maria Teresa del Toro with who at 17 years old fell madly in love Bolívar although that she was a little older than he was. With passion Bolivar welcomed this happiness the first that he could reach, and yearned to part immediately to live with that girl, a romantic idyl in the earth of his senior. MariaTeresa was without a doubt, delicate, pale and beautiful, with the repression of those precocious souls whose melancholy looking seems to denounce the brief time that they are supposed to live. Few times the history introduces so fantastic going in their heroes, of so fabulous realizations, like the one of Bolivar, a soul that follows so continuous the happiness and the depression, a soul so...