Lyles post 2

In The Lonely Crossing of Juan Cabrera, Juan dreams that he is flying over his family’s old sugarcane fields back in Cuba. Flying in a dream signifies a sense of freedom where you had initially felt restricted and incomplete. When Juan was younger his father was taken away by the uniformed men and killed. Even though Juan’s Mother told Juan his father was dead, everyday he would climb a framboyan tree to see if he could see his father coming over the horizon. Juan is dreaming about flying because he feels incomplete without his father and is hoping this will change when he finds freedom in Miami and sees Carmen. Juan is hoping Carmen will fill the emptiness where his father once was in his life.