Based on those similar details, the author rings the bell of Espinosa's death from the first sentence to the last word in "The Gospel According to Mark."
             It is difficult not to compare Jesus' crucifixion with Espinosa's death since from the beginning of the title of the story, "The Gospel According to Mark," Espinosa's fate has been woven with Jesus. Even though both Jesus and Espinosa are crucified for lifting the others from their sin, Jesus was meant to do it but not Espinosa. That is the big ridiculousness of Espinosa's death.
             According to the gospels, Jesus claimed that he was the son of God, and he devoted himself to converting people into the new conceptions of an ancient religion. Then Jesus even died for his belief. However, Espinosa is only an ordinary person; "We may describe him, for now, as one of the common run of young men from Buenos Aires, with nothing more noteworthy about him" (521). Moreover, he seemingly follows his father's step to be a freethinker:
             Owing to an acquiescent nature, he was full of opinions, or habits of mind, that
             were questionable: Argentina mattered less to him than a fear that in other parts
             of the world people might think of us as Indians; he worshiped France but
             ...