Entrenched assumptions and beliefs about human experience and the world can be affirmed or challenged by disarming discoveries. Che Guevara’s memoir, ‘The Motorcycle Diaries’ in which the author finds his own naive opin-ions about the world challenged through journeying into South America de-picts how encounters with poverty leads to the instigation of his Marxist ideal-ism. However, the protagonist of Italo Calvino’s short story, ‘Serpents and Skulls’ questions ideology through contemplating archeological
(1992) and The Motorcycle Diaries (2004) direct their characters on a path exploration and discovery of their lands and themselves. Through these expeditions they unearth and reveal to the audience their experiences of self-transformation and change. Both films are instigated by the progression of the protagonists’ fundamental relationship with the territory that they traverse. However, regardless of the distinctive narrative significance in both Indochine and The Motorcycle Diaries, the characters
“The Motorcycle Diaries”, directed by Walter Salles describes Ernesto’s experience during his nine month journey through South America. Ernesto Guevara, a good man who displays great exuberance as a kind doctor, turns into a harsh Marxist revolutionary, due to witnessing horrible conditions for peasants in his motorcycle journey through South America. Ernesto Guevara is born to a half Basque and half Irish middle class family in Buenos Aries. He has access to a wide variety of books, but Guevara
be lessons that you learn from your own surroundings. In the case of Che Guevara, he was a man who started out wanting to be medical doctor, but after learning more about what was happening in Latin America his views changed. In the movie The Motorcycle Diaries, we get a visual idea of what Che saw through his journey to change his views, and in hindsight what he wanted to do with his life. Che was a man who wasn’t afraid to voice his opinion and we saw this in many scenes of the movie, as he spoke
Discovery is a state of mind that challenges an individual's values by changing one’s perspective. Both Ernesto Guevara’s, “The Motorcycle Diaries” (TMD) and J.D. Salinger’s, “The Catcher in the Rye” (Catcher) utilise their reflective forms of text to reveal that one only achieves this state of mind by reflecting on one’s confronting experiences. Through diverse literary techniques, discovery is uncovered as a complex process that involves personal growth. As such, confronting discoveries can lead
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