Valentin’s feebleness in prison can be compared to Demetrio Macias’s defenselessness when he was wounded early in the revolutionary group’s excursion to the city of Zacatecas. At the time, the 60 revolutionaries had an insufficient 20 rifles, so bullets from the enemy showered them. After manipulating shirts into tunics to hinder bleeding in Demetrio’s leg, the rebel group relayed him on a makeshift stretcher, and rejuvenated at a quaint Indian village. Demetrio had symptoms such as daily chills and fever, his leg was terribly swollen, and he was in general pain. Demetrio never quit fighting through the pain with the thought of his wife and children back home. Nevertheless, once he permitted Luis Cervantes, a deserter from the Federalist army with a medical degree, to treat him, Demetrio healed …show more content…
Demetrio assembles a unit of rebels to fight for his wife and child against the Federalist Mexican government, which has devastated multiple towns and villages, including his own. Valentin, although a political prisoner, opposed the Peronist Argentine government and supported the ideology of Marxism with his motivation of Marta in the back of his mind. Each leader’s motivation reflected the setting in which their novels occurred. For instance, Valentin concluded Marta was his true love when the world’s first female president was sworn into office in Argentina. Moreover, Demetrio lingered with battles for his wife and child since the idea of patriarchy still held strong in that era of Mexican history. All in all, the similar motivations within differing eras and places distinguishes each country, while at the same time, binds them together, reflecting the simplicity and complexity of Latin American
Imagine a world where AI creatures have to check a pipeline each night and kill those who refuse to leave it. This is the type of world Eme lives in, she has an abusive husband and uses this pipeline as an escape, however, what happens when her only escape is taken from her by an AI machine? The literary techniques, imagery, diction and mood help portray Emes' fear and friendship with the machine in the story, “The Spider Artist” by Nnedi Okoradfor. To start off, “The Spider Artist” includes many examples of imagery to help support the theme of friendship Eme has with the machine. As Eme sits in the pipeline to escape her husband's abuse, the monster starts creeping towards her, she explains, “It left the pipeline and crept up to me” (Okordfor 729).
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Spider-Man and Spider-Woman In comic books, certain archetypes exist; the strong-man, the detective, the magician, the hero, the anti-hero, and the villain just to name a few. Each major comic book company has their own specific twists on them. Marvel Comics, in relation to its multiverse, has a specific archetype of a spider totem. An individual imbued with the proportionate powers of a spider.
In order to expose gender stereotypes and occupational segregation during the war, Esquivel characterizes Gertrudis, Tita’s sister, as a revolutionary woman who defies the domestic sphere. The willingness to help the male soldiers during the war earned the women a title of respect. “Las soldaderas” were women soldiers who fought during the revolution. They were composed of “the widows, wives, daughters and sisters of rebels” (Mexican Revolution). “Las soldaderas” were not only women who fought, but women who aided the revolution at home.
In the book Kiss of the Spider Woman the author Manuel Puig I eventually notice a conviction after reading some of the book and also listening to the classroom discussions. Although I personally could not fully follow and understand the text and what Puig was saying to my full capability I also thought deeper into what was said and involved the two main characters Valentin and Molina. The author writes about two very different people who are put into an Argentine jail together for two different reasons. These main characters are total opposites of each other, Molina is a romantic, a homosexual, and someone who likes to tell a romantic story involving a guy that he was in love with at point who was straight. Valentin is a character who hates the government, says cynical things, and is more of a realist. But throughout their time together in the jail cell they have ended up telling each other their stories, which I think strengthens a bond between them. I do not know one hundred prevent for sure what the author meant by his writing or if he even had anything to feel remorse for but I personally think this was a gateway for him to recognize what he had done or done to him.
Azuela’s novel started with a narrative of an upper class elite by the name of Don Monaco setting fire to the home of Demetrio. For the remainder of the novel, Azuela portrayed the wealthy similarly to the federales; a violent group of people whom only acted out of self-interest and hatred towards the lower-class, such as Don Monaco. The revolutionaries acted no more civilly than the wealthy, however, often pillaging and raiding homes in seatch of valuables, which they viewed as forms of payment. While these inter-class interactions were seemingly always negative in the novel, the historical context of the Mexican Revolution shows a different side of things. In the early stages of the Mexican Revolution, several small bands of revolutionaries fought for separate causes and with varying motivations.
One element of the story that is exemplified very well is loss in the villain's journey. The villain's loss refers to something that the villain still requires or wants. In this story, there are 2 such items. The first item that he is missing is his company as the board of directors have voted to sell the company. He would lose his company as well as all of the work he dedicated to create and maintain it.
There are moments in life that can change the way you think, live and act. For instance the story of Miles Morales a fictional character from the Ultimate spider-man comics. M.M. (Miles Morales) was a juvenile delinquent who stayed in trouble, part of his problem was not having a father figure as he grew up but on day he met Peter Parker on a field trip, now Miles Morales is a unique child because he has the same exact abilities as spider-man a.k.a P.P. (Peter Parker) . P.P. could sense that him and M.M. where one in the same so he took the younger wall crawler under his tutelage and became the father figure in his life. Through the events that transpired with P.P. his life changed his grades became stable and he was rarely ever in trouble again. The life of a person can indeed be changed throughout the events encountered by the person.
While Spider-Man's web slinging towards the Marvel Cinematic Universe is generally good news to the public, there's one very big drawback to the move: Andrew Garfield won't be playing Peter Parker anymore. Variety reported that the next step from the recent partnership is to recast the beloved Spider-Man, and the studio is thinking of bringing Parker back to school. This means that they are now in search of a younger actor - one that would blend in high school. Several websites have already began guessing who the next Spider-Man will be, and offered up a list of suggestions.
nelw3ex3w06fon_2_b Spider-man was one of the beloved comic superhero characters that you've ever seen. From there, people are asking Marvel if they can set a TV series for this superhero. It's a good thing that they've listened to their fans and made it a reality. The first Spider-man TV series was released back in 1967, and it was a success.
Today the region of Latin America is known for unequal society and many factor played this outcome both internal and external influences played major role of this unequal society. As we seen the film the motorcycle diaries, the continental of Latin America is very diverse land with many different people and social groups. Watching this film I realized that in Latin America national boundaries do not mark the true differences that exist in Latin America. In South America, there are westernized people who speak European languages such as Spanish, Portuguese and some English and other who speak indigenous languages.
Love politics: Friendship as a means to critique rebellion in Kiss of the Spider Woman
The ending of Kiss of the Spider Woman was very interesting and a surprising twist. Molina’s death was surprising after being shot by Valentín’s revolutionary group, but the most surprising was actually Valentín’s predicament. He is brutally beaten which he turns to find pain relief that sends him into a drug-induced mind. The reader gets a glimpse of his consciousness and his dream-state mind, which revolves, back to the theme of escapism. Valentín dreams of escaping prison to an exotic island where he is finally reunited with his long lost love, Marta.
When people hear “Latin America,” what is the first thing that comes to mind? Sombreros? Tacos? The stereotype Mexican culture that is associated with all latinos? With the vast number of countries included in Latin America, the diversity in ethnicities and the rich history of the culture, there is more to Latin America then what meets the eye.
Women of Latin American culture have incessantly ensued the potent gender roles that have become a social construction of their society over innumerable decades. The profound author of Insurgent Mexico, John Reed, imparts his experiences with the revolutionary leaders of the Mexican Revolution, like Pancho Villa, and was able to witness their culture and more specifically the roles these Mexican women were forced to render by their chauvinistic counterparts. This period of revolution, started to grant women new mantles usually reserved only for men, like participating in fighting for the success of the revolution; any preeminent changes would soon approach, but in the meantime Mexican society run by men enjoyed the regulated traditional