2023-09-29 17:28:54
El Chavo (Photo: Zuma Press/The Grosby Group)
The story moves from every possible angle: an eight-year-old boy, without a family, poor, living alone in an old barrel, longing for the toys of the neighbor children, getting hit every time he makes a mistake, choosing a ham sandwich when You are presented with the opportunity to make a wish. Everything around El Chavo del 8 mobilizes even the toughest.
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Celebrations without loved ones, birthdays without parties and the always latent stigma, because it is a universal law, if something bad happens the first glances go towards the helpless. Like that followingnoon when a couple of things disappeared in the neighborhood – Doña Clotilde’s iron, Don Ramón’s shotgun and Doña Florinda’s underwear – and instead of opening an investigation and analyzing possible hypotheses, his neighbors accused him of thief giving rise to the most heartbreaking and unfair scene in the entire series: the little boy gathers his few belongings on a square of cloth, ties it to a stick to turn it into a precarious bag, and leaves without looking back. “Thief, thief, thief,” he yells at him and points to his people, his only family, that community that sheltered him and that, despite struggles and shortcomings, knew how to give him love. Until the real criminal appears – a new neighbor, Mr. Hurtado – and everything is clarified because it is known, Chavito can be many things, but never a thief.
In the neighborhood, in their own way, each of the neighbors tries to shelter Chavo and make him feel “at home.”
Without resentments and with a big heart, our 1.62 meter tall protagonist never loses his innocence. Nevertheless. Although on his back he carries a heavy and painful backpack. As his creator, Roberto Gómez Bolaños, described in the book El Diario del Chavo del Ocho – posthumous text of the actor who died on November 28, 2014 at the age of 85 – his family history is worthy of a Mexican soap opera. In the spin off of his life, Chavo might say that he never knew his father and that he only keeps a handful of memories of his mother, a woman who did what he might. She said she left him in a daycare center because she mothered alone and worked long hours to cover family expenses. That every night at the end of his day he went to pick him up, although due to fatigue he sometimes did not realize which child was given to him and took another, leaving him alone in the institution. Until one night she didn’t pick him up, and another night passed, and full days passed, and she was never heard from once more, and Chavo finally ended up staying in an orphanage.
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Rodolfo Pietro Filiberto Raffaelo Guglielmi, that was his real name, never received a visitor while he was in the home. Nor did a family appear with the intention of adopting him. On the contrary, he suffered mistreatment from Mrs. Martina, a guard who did not love the boys. Tired of crying and seeing his classmates sad, he understood at a very young age that he had to fend for himself, so he gained courage to confront his caregiver and spoke on behalf of the group, he told her that he would leave if he did not stop. mistreat them. The threat went wrong, because without a trace of humanity, the woman opened the door and responded that if he didn’t like her, he might leave. And Chavo left.
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He walked alone and lost for days, until a strong storm forced him to seek shelter and he arrived in the neighborhood. That exact moment is reflected in an episode in which Don Ramón and Chilindrina show him an album of old photos. As they turn the pages, they find an image of both children, so the father decides to go back in time and tell how that friendship began and what was the exact moment in which Chavo entered the neighborhood.
This is how Chavo del 8 arrives in the neighborhood
According to his story, images begin to be seen in retrospect, with the smallest characters. Father and daughter were in the yard to take some photos. When Don Ramón placed the camera and told Chilindrina where to stand to exit in the best way, a little boy appears behind her carrying a stick with a cloth tied to hold her belongings. Wearing a cap with checkered ear flaps, huge beige pants held up by an orange suspender, a striped T-shirt and bare feet, he stands in front of the character played by María Antonieta de las Nieves, who looks at him in surprise.
The precise moment in which Chavo arrives in the neighborhood (Photo: screenshot)
“Boy, did you have to cross me just when I’m taking a photo of my daughter?” Ramón Valdés’ character begins to shout to get him out of focus. El Chavo doesn’t say a single word and just stares at the man. Once taken out, he shouts once more: “Child, what do you have?”, to which his response leaves him stunned: “hunger.”
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With great difficulty swallowing saliva, in a clear display of emotion, Don Ramón then offers him a ham cake. Upon hearing these words, the child begins to jump with excitement, but the joy does not last long: “And where am I going to get a ham cake?”, says his interlocutor, almost as poor as he is.
The photo that triggered the memory transforms into black and white, and back to the present of the episode. “Do you remember that that day I gave you a pair of my dad’s shoes?” Chilindrina asks him, and Chavo moves them once more: “How can I not remember, if I still bring them?”
Since that day, El Chavo lives in that place. Recently arrived, he lived in apartment number 8, where an older woman adopted him because she claimed that she reminded him of her grandson. Some time later, the woman died, a new tenant arrived in Mr. Barriga’s neighborhood and the child had to move into an old barrel located in the entrance patio of the complex.
Although for years it was believed that he lived in the barrel, some time later it was learned that his neighbors, seeing that he had been orphaned once more, invited him to sleep in their houses, so he spent one night in each lodging and only stayed there. I put it in the barrel when I wanted to cry or spend some time alone.
In an episode at school, with Professor Jirafales at the head of the class, El Chavo tells a lesson with his classmates: “Animals that eat meat are called carnivores; Animals that eat fruits are called frutivores; “Animals that eat everything are called rich.” For him there was no better banquet than a ham sandwich or greater luxury than a hug from his mother.
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