Topic > Identity in the wandering multitude by Laura Restrepo

The wandering multitude is a story of migrants but also a love story. The protagonist, who is a man on a journey who has spent his whole life searching for the promised land, is called Siete por tres. He left everything behind. Including the name, but somehow Siete por tres goes against the flow of the great migratory flow; They are all looking for work, while Siete por tres goes against the path because it is looking for a woman who was lost in the travails of war. At a certain point Siete por tres arrives at a refuge for displaced people and there finds a foreigner who works for a humanitarian organisation. After the meeting, Siete por tres explains that he is looking for a woman named Matilde Lina and to help him find her. This task is impossible; It's like looking for a needle in a haystack because they're both in a place with people who are undocumented, homeless, homeless, homeless. In any case, she agrees to help him and in doing so the two begin to get to know him and fall in love with him. This is the story of a love triangle and a search for identity so intertwined. From the moment she sees Siete por tres, this foreigner already knows that there is danger, “there is pain here, pain awaits me here, I must escape from here. ." (page 5, electronic). She immediately understands that this infatuation will bring her problems or pain. There is the belief that every move, every emigration are two journeys. An external journey through geography, a more physical journey and there it is also an internal journey, within oneself, an initiatory journey. Meeting another person and falling in love and being fascinated by another person is a shift. So, it is a complicated border of...... middle of paper.. ....res has an incomprehensible loyalty in the face of his old pains, and does not want to face them This theme of love is seen very clearly through the literary work of Laura Restrepo, but it is, without forgetting to remember that the theme of the search of identity, is the other half of the puzzle. Seven times three is undoubtedly this symbol. He leaves behind his homeland that he knows, his loved ones, his language, and with this escape in which we see that he is the displaced person. which guides and transports the trajectory or rumba of culture this love triangle between Ojos de Agua, Siete por tres and Matilde Lina is linked to identity, and this is what makes the love flow between the three. It is the complexities that each character possesses, and the displacement that each experiences, that makes the literary work truly come together and ghostly love and identity flourish..