Summary Of The Motorcycle Diaries By Sylvia Plath

During the process of discoveries, it can be profoundly momentous in unforseen situations. It may confront ethics to create emotional and intellectual responses and confront their values. Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara’s compilation of diaries embedded in The Motorcycle Diaries, illustrates the fulfilled adventures of Guevara and his companion, Alberto. Upon Che’s course of self-discovery, he discovers physical environments of deprived social prejudice, the South American civilians had suffered. Thus, caused him to alter his perspectives and ideals. Alternatively, the enigmatic poem Ariel, composed by Sylvia Plath, explores Plath’s own spiritual horse riding experience around the countryside during sunrise. Through her expedition, she passionately learns
Before Che embarks on his expedition to Chile in The Motorcycle Diaries, he was fond of the physical surroundings he had encountered. He describes the ‘sea’ to ‘always been a confidant, a friend absorbing all it is told and never revealing those secrets; always giving the best advice’. Che personifies the ‘sea’ with human attributes to reflect the susceptibility to the central element to what he learns from his adventure. Also, utilisation of progressive verbs of ‘always…absorbing…giving’ underlines the significance of his new knowledge of natural landscapes, thus its impact on his consciousness. Whilst in Chuquicamata, Che contradicts the mountains to be ‘beauty without grace’ to the ‘unsung heros who die miserably’. The descriptive language of ‘gray spine, prematurely aged in the battle with the elements…entrails of riches’ infused with his growing compassion for the miners ‘their lives devoured by the soulless arms of mechanical shovels’ expresses his urge for social justice is more significant than nature. This creates a darker, punitive imagery of the sacrifice of the miners endure to just obtain their ‘daily bread’. Moreover, the intellectual elements Che learnt from his physical journey had altered his perspective; “the person who wrote these notes passed away the moment his feet touched argentine soil again… I am not the person I once was”. The
The author initiates with the opening line ‘stasis in darkness’, to create a dark, depressive tone to uncover there will be no motion of light. Consonance and slant rhyme of ‘stasis’ and ‘darkness’ constructs the empathetic, intensity of mood the poem withholds in emphasising the dark, ideals of the persona. But, unexpectedly, change is apparent when the sky is described to be ‘substanceless blue’. Ultimately, it uplifts the tone as she has ridden upon to an environment of light. This reveals change of physical environments can revaluate individual’s emotive response and perspectives to emerge new values. While the persona’s trip progresses, the tone shifts back and fourth as she finds the sense of sensuousness and realism; ‘nigger…berries cast dark hooks – black sweet blood mouthfuls’. The voluntary, derogatory language ‘nigger’ adds a deeper sensitive meaning of the shade of the berries. Also, sensual imagery aids the disintegration of the juxtaposition of ‘dark’ to ‘sweet’ to display her state of change on the tone of atmospheres. Profoundly, encounters of gaining knowledge of physical surroundings have the ability to influence a person to reassess their values and