Comparing 'The Journey Of Guevara And Granado's Journey'
Any Journey includes both realities and possibilities.
-to what extent does the texts you have studied, support this idea?
Related Material ONE:
MOTORCYCLE DIARIES-
Only 23, he begins his journey as a medical student and emerges with a new perspective of South America. This perspective informs his future as a political revolutionary.
The journey, which had begun as a quest for excitement, cheap alcohol and available women, became, according to Guevara, a formative experience in his life. Following the trip he was to reject life as a doctor, a career for which he had begun training, and was to embrace life as an ardent revolutionary. It is this transformative journey, that apparently had a central influence on the direction of his life, that director, Walter Salles, has attempted to bring to the big screen.
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* Narrow minded at the beginning of the journey later their minds change and broaden themselves to new aspects of life e.g. the Cuban war. * Through the characters they encounter on the road, Guevara and Granado learn the injustices the impoverished face and are exposed to people they would have never encountered in their hometown. The trip serves to expose a Latin American identity as well as explore the identity of one of its most memorable revolutionaries. * During their expedition, Guevara and Granado encounter the poverty of the indigenous peasants, and the movie assumes a greater seriousness once the men gain a better sense of the disparity between the "haves" and "have-nots" of Latin America. In Chile, the pleasure travelers encounter a couple forced onto the road because of their communist beliefs. * uevara sees both physically and metaphorically the division of society - the staff live on the north side of a river, separated from the lepers living on the south. Guevara also refuses to wear rubber gloves during his visit choosing instead to shake bare hands with startled leper
-to what extent does the texts you have studied, support this idea?
Related Material ONE:
MOTORCYCLE DIARIES-
Only 23, he begins his journey as a medical student and emerges with a new perspective of South America. This perspective informs his future as a political revolutionary.
The journey, which had begun as a quest for excitement, cheap alcohol and available women, became, according to Guevara, a formative experience in his life. Following the trip he was to reject life as a doctor, a career for which he had begun training, and was to embrace life as an ardent revolutionary. It is this transformative journey, that apparently had a central influence on the direction of his life, that director, Walter Salles, has attempted to bring to the big screen.
Few main points: …show more content…
* Narrow minded at the beginning of the journey later their minds change and broaden themselves to new aspects of life e.g. the Cuban war. * Through the characters they encounter on the road, Guevara and Granado learn the injustices the impoverished face and are exposed to people they would have never encountered in their hometown. The trip serves to expose a Latin American identity as well as explore the identity of one of its most memorable revolutionaries. * During their expedition, Guevara and Granado encounter the poverty of the indigenous peasants, and the movie assumes a greater seriousness once the men gain a better sense of the disparity between the "haves" and "have-nots" of Latin America. In Chile, the pleasure travelers encounter a couple forced onto the road because of their communist beliefs. * uevara sees both physically and metaphorically the division of society - the staff live on the north side of a river, separated from the lepers living on the south. Guevara also refuses to wear rubber gloves during his visit choosing instead to shake bare hands with startled leper