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The text titled "CANDLES" narrates the story of a girl and her twin brother, Miguel, who have a conflicted relationship. The narrator feels different from other children and considers Miguel immature. During a visit to a candle store, Miguel gets angry with the narrator and pushes her against a shelf, breaking several candles. Back at home, their mother scolds the children and takes away their access to the television. As the story progresses, it is revealed that the house is engulfed in silence and the mother has let silence into their lives. The mother's boyfriend, Joel, arrives at the house and an uncomfortable situation arises between him and the narrator. The text ends with the narrator feeling how silence consumes her. [Extracted from the article]

States of devotion, sensual romances and esoteric rites are held in the light of the candles. This functional commodity is used as a 'ritual artifact', incorporated with creativity to social events of dissimilar orientation. In this paper the image used as a resource document has revealed the ubiquity and repetition with which candles are lit in cultural practices as 'atrezzo' and/or metaphor. The analysis of four contemporary frameworks which demonstrate the presence of a 'candle lighting' -Decoration of public places, protest actions, popular mourning and memorials- suggested, on the one hand, the importance of aestheticization processes and on the other hand, the centrality for this expression to evoke remove the symbolic heritage. Both mechanisms -ethics and aesthetics- described conditions of possibility in the activation of human emotions that regulate, imperceptibly, cultural systems in social life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Candles were an element of controversy in the 18th century New Spain. The religious culture that had favored the overwhelming brightness maintained its vigor, but these excesses were rejected by authorities through arguments of economics and worship decency. In contrast, bishops and magistrates favored the lighting associated with devotional practices and Eucharistic worship. At the same time, candles were a symbol of ceremonial power, which was a motive for complaints among the clergy, representatives of the king, and the public. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

States of devotion, sensual romances and esoteric rites are held in the light of the candles. This functional commodity is used as a 'ritual artifact', incorporated with creativity to social events of dissimilar orientation. In this paper the image used as a resource document has revealed the ubiquity and repetition with which candles are lit in cultural practices as 'atrezzo' and/or metaphor. The analysis of four contemporary frameworks which demonstrate the presence of a 'candle lighting' -Decoration of public places, protest actions, popular mourning and memorials- suggested, on the one hand, the importance of aestheticization processes and on the other hand, the centrality for this expression to evoke remove the symbolic heritage. Both mechanisms -ethics and aesthetics- described conditions of possibility in the activation of human emotions that regulate, imperceptibly, cultural systems in social life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]