Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Eric's OP topic
I intend to investigate how Estaban Truaba's later life foreshadows the political fate of Chile in the early 1970's. First by showing how Estaban loses everything that he had worked for all of this life, and then by explaining how this rise and fall mirrors the election of "the candidate" or President Salvador Allende and then the coup and the rise of General Augousto Pinochet.
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We are so used to Esteban being an antagonist in the story, but making Estaban a symbol for the history of a nation makes him seem like a protagonist. Do you think that Allende is attempting to antagonize Chile's history as well?
ReplyDeleteIs Trueba as a protagonist a bad thing? Is that antagonistic? I view it as simply human. I like the idea!
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