When someone thinks of a hurricane, it's not often that fruit is the first thing that comes to mind. In “Hurricane Trouble,” Victor Hernandez Cruz brings mangoes and bananas to center stage in the middle of a hurricane. The poem, told through the eyes of a “campesino” (native of a rural area of ​​Latin America), credits the fruit with a dangerous and deadly role in contributing to casualties during a hurricane (Webster's 178). The farmer believes that death by production is a dishonorable way to die and emphasizes that people need to be aware of what may be happening around them because there is a possibility that they may not appear as they are. In “Hurricane Problems,” Cruz reveals that the most beautiful sweet things can be the most dangerous. A flower, a dove or the goddess Aphrodite are all easily associated with beauty, but the color red or warnings are associated with danger. Human beings as a whole do not normally associate beauty with danger. However, in some rare and unexpected scenarios, such as a hurricane, good things can become dangerous. The farmer emphasizes this when he refers to the flying fruits that are deadly in the midst of hurricane winds. “A mango smashing/[someone's] skull/or a banana tree hitting [their]/temple at 70 miles an hour,” are his examples of fruits that cause death (Cruz 786, 20-23) . The fruits he mentions, mangoes and plantains, are symbols of all things sweet and beautiful with their blooming flowers and vibrant colors. Neither has signs or symbols of danger, but according to the farmer, when thrown about by a hurricane, M all | 2 can be dangerous enough to cause death. Although a symbol can represent an object or feeling such as a... nice middle of paper ......l/sweet things”, but warnings do not associate with W all | 3 beauty, giving an example of how the majority of the human race normally does not consider what is beautiful dangerous (Cruz 787, 32-35). Victor Hernandez Cruz uses symbols, images and tones in “Hurricane Problems” to make it clear that people should be wary of sweet and beautiful things, as they can cause the most damage and be the most dangerous. Through the words spoken by the farmer throughout the poem, readers are led to the conclusion that just because an object seems tempting on the outside (a banana or a mango), does not mean that it cannot transform into something deadly under the right circumstances, even if it is the cause of an external force acting on the object that makes it deadly. Therefore, things that are more attractive, sweet and beautiful can cause more harm and danger.