Johnston Post 2

I think that Juan's dream is more a sign of uncertainty than anything else. Since it's a dream, it's most likely hazy and unclear, which was probably how Juan felt around the time that he was having the dream. Also, the author talks about how Juan climbed the framboyan tree every day after his father was taken away, and even after his mother told him that his father had been killed, he still climbed the tree every day to see if his father was coming home. Part of him knew that his father was gone, and part of him wanted to believe that he was still alive. In that way, he was uncertain about his father. I believe that all of this reflects on the fact that Juan is uncertain about two things: he doesn't know if he's going to live, and if he does, he is not sure about where he is going to end up at the end of his journey across the ocean.