Summary of No one writes to the colonel?

Question

Do you know of a translation on line and/or summary of the story? I am reading it in my span lit class and I dont understand it.

Answer 1

Summary: Each Friday when his village receives mail, he goes to the post office expecting his pension and each time returns emptyhanded. "No one writes to the colonel" says the postmaster.

The colonel and his wife are in desperate financial straits. They subsist on meager earnings, and pin their financial hopes on the colonel's promised pension and on the hopes that their fighting rooster will win an upcoming cockfight. The rooster was raised by the couple's only son, who was shot during a cockfight for distributing censured literature.