Remarkably, four separate instances of these events happened to author Antonio di Benedetto during his imprisonment under the Videla regime. In one novel, a former teacher organizes one of these events with a scarecrow after making arbitrary decrees such as animals out after six becoming public property. One of these events occurs at the end of a story whose protagonist habitually hides in the hills after hacking a (*) landowner to death with a machete. A father addresses his son Justino (“hoo-STEE-no”) before one of these events in that story from The Burning Plain. A character who is said to have survived “fourteen attempts on his life, seventy-three ambushes,” and one of these events spends it thinking about the time he saw a diamond-like object at a tinkers’ camp. For 10 points, Colonel Aureliano Buendía remembers seeing ice with his father while facing death by what method? ■END■
ANSWER: firing squads [accept mock firing squad; prompt on executions or mock executions] (The Juan Rulfo story is “Tell Them Not to Kill Me!”)
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