In the picture it focuses on two soldiers standing in the front of a building in ruins.The soldiers with their military uniform, triumphantly stand with there guns high in the air. The caption reads “La moneda destruida, Santiago 1973,” which translates to “currency destroyed.” This relates to the artwork because both the caption and the image depict destruction from the Chilean military. From an inference the soldiers stand in front of the Allende presidential palace in ruins. The currency can relate to the collapse of the first Chilean democracy because the presidential palace holds place to the heart of the democracy and that's where the president creates his executive decisions, so it became the most vital place to destroy by the Chilean …show more content…
There would be citizens in fear crying trying to get to safety as well as citizens that support president president Allende getting shot. The scene would be complete chaos. This photograph reminds me of the scene where Jaime is called in to the presidential palace and as soon as he arrives the square is completely empty and there’s soldiers guarding the gates. They dressed in their uniforms and guns. Both the image and the book describe the soldiers as guarding and protecting the palace. The pictures thesis statement would be the destruction of a political environment can create a broad, lasting impact. This message depicts the presidential palace in ruins and this creates a tumble effect that left Chile's economy also in ruins. Chiles society became split. Many people were in favor of Allende and mourned when he passed, but others also believed a change needed to take place. With the split occurring, Chile’s economy became destroyed similar to what the photograph is saying in the aspect of the currency which came from the economy becoming …show more content…
1973.” This translates to “friends of Pablo Neruda at his funeral.” The picture focuses on a group of people linked in arms which appear to be walking outside. The background of the picture is trees and the sky. The caption being “friends of Pablo Neruda at his funeral connect the people in the picture as Pablo Neruda’s friends. The photograph evokes sad emotions because Pablo Neruda’s friends express mournful looks on their faces and instead of enjoying Pablo Neruda company, they have to remember him instead. Outside of the picture there would be many more people coming in support of Pablo Neruda. The citizens would be grieving and also coping by reciting his poems because Pablo Neruda was seen as one of the greatest spanish poets and he brought the countries spirits up. Also, since the power belonged to Augusto Pinochet now there would Pinochet’s regime trying to get anyone attending this funeral gone because it did not follow under the same beliefs that Pinochet thought. This photograph reminds me of the scene where Alba and Esteban Trueba are seen at the poets funeral with other people such as journalist those brave enough to attend. In the scene the people grieving Pablo Neruda recite his poems in order to honor his memory. If this photograph had a thesis statement it would be that once someone has passed away their legacy will live
The relationship between the working class and Allende is definitely a difficult to understand because it's hard to understand how a political party is supported by the same group who contributes to their downfall. The working class was not the only reason Allende lost power, but was a heavy contributor. The working class seemed to only use Allende as a reason to enforce reform, and Allende used the working class as a group of supporters. The two groups could only agree on the fact that Chile needed serious social change, and Allende was the best shot they had.
...r had embraced a counterrevolution of economic and political order. The greatest symbolism of the fall of the government under Salvador Allende was the return of repression on the workers at the mill.
Salvador Allende promised to redistribute Chile's income (only two percent of the population received forty-six percent of the income), nationalize major industries (especially the copper companies), and to expand relations with socialist and communist countries. Allende's presidency presented a threat to the United States; a man with such aspirations would have to stray from United States policies and the policies of all other countries. Allende would neither respect nor consider the work the United States had done for them in the past. The United States would no longer be able to act as a parasite, sucking the money out of Chile. The U.S. decided it must stop this man from rising to power as soon as possible.
On the one hand, in Ernesto Guevara’s diary social injustice is easily detected, and portrayed in a quite moving way, both through some key incidents that were responsible for Ernesto’s new understanding of the world, and Ernesto’s words when narrating his own reflections about these episodes. Firstly, when Ernesto went to visit the sick old woman in Valparaiso, who suffered asthma and a heart condition, is a situation that gives a clear view of the poor reality that some people had to face everyday because they did not have even the minimum conditions to survive with dignity, and on top of that, the sadness of people turned themselves into a nuisance for their family just for the fact of being sick. Secondly, Ernesto’s encounter with the couple of communist workers harassed by their political ideas in Baquedano, who did not have a single blanket to protect themselves from the freezing cold of the desert night, enable us to see, as Ernesto wrote, the representation of the proletariat of the world. Moreover, this couple showed him the ruthless reality of so many people in Chile who were pursued, tortured and disappeared for their...
To begin with the story “The Censors” by Luisa Valenzuela was written to depict an event that was happening in the world at the time. In which was the time when Argentina overthrew the government in 1976. The new government was strict and killed thirteen to fifteen thousand innocent without even giving them the chance because the government feared that the poor would eventually try to overthrow the government. With that in mind, the main character in our story Juan begins with a conflicting that he is facing internally. Juan was worried about whether or not the letter he sent to Marina would make it to her house safely or would they become a victim to the government. So he decides to become one of the working men for the censors so that he would get his letter back
... in a common effort that contributed to protest activities. The photograph also uses tension to portray the two conflicting ideologies. There is visible tension between the guardsmen and the protestors; the guns represent war and violence while the flowers represent peace, love and nature. The National Guardsmen also look very uneasy while the protestors look content and comfortable. The union of the two creates tension in this photograph because they are so meaningful alone, making this photograph a very iconic image of the time.
...n image of desolate grief that the lone brother feels for his lifeless sibling. Image is truly the most important element in the style of this story.
...all want to believe that the crime was truly “foretold”, and that nothing could have been done to change that, each one of the characters share in a part of Santiago Nasar’s death. Gabriel Garcia Marquez writes about the true selfishness and ignorance that people have today. Everyone waits for someone else to step in and take the lead so something dreadful can be prevented or stopped. What people still do not notice is that if everyone was to stand back and wait for others, who is going to be the one who decides to do something? People don’t care who gets hurt, as long as it’s not themselves, like Angela Vicario, while other try to reassure themselves by thinking that they did all that they could, like Colonel Lazaro Aponte and Clotilde Armenta. And finally, some people try to fight for something necessary, but lose track of what they set out for in the first place.
They’ve set a shining example of how the will to make a difference can have drastic and incredible results effective or not to the immediate situation at hand, it encourages the surrounding people to question the value of their freedom. After the dictatorship fell, the trial of the murderers was on T.V. for a month, and they admitted to killing the Mirabal sisters and Rufino by strangulation. Although they died however, their sacrifice had not gone unnoticed. The memory of their sacrifice is honored today, by a national holiday and monuments, and through these closure is found, but their story is not lost. “Las Mariposas” leave an important legacy that enforces the ever existing
The painting entitled `Zapata con el caballo de Cortés` was painted in 1931, eleven years after the end of The Mexican Revolution, by the Mexican muralist – Diego Rivera. It represents the social economic and political revolution in Mexico led by peasants under the conduct of Emiliano Zapata against the authoritarian regime of the former president - Portfolio Diaz. In this analysis I will focus on the characters, the setting, the colours and the way they communicate in the painting.
This one small stanza alludes to three other works; Self-Portrait, Seven Bathers, and Château Noir. Upon a single read, the poem appears to only be referring to the artwork Untitled by Alberto Valdes and how the movement of the piece looks. Villanueva’s inner thoughts are revealed as he ponders what the shapes and lines are doing, thinking things like, “..Will they keep their shape, I wonder, or break up and rearrange themselves into a brighter, more memorable pose... into a bigger elemental thing?” (Villanueva).
As the first poem in the book it sums up the primary focus of the works in its exploration of loss, grieving, and recovery. The questions posed about the nature of God become recurring themes in the following sections, especially One and Four. The symbolism includes the image of earthly possessions sprawled out like gangly dolls, a reference possibly meant to bring about a sense of nostalgia which this poem does quite well. The final lines cement the message that this is about loss and life, the idea that once something is lost, it can no longer belong to anyone anymore brings a sense...
Pablo Neruda is recognized as an influential poet, still people can’t separate his poetry from his politics; instead, critics analyze him for all he is: the sad, the happy, the political and the personal. Pablo Neruda’s thematic mood changes and progresses in perspective to his poems "Body of a Woman", "Ode to the Yellow Bird", and "The Portrait in the Rock" (in that chronological order). Neruda not only progresses from the first line to the last line in each individual poem but as a poet over time. For Neruda’s readers to feel the shift in tone and the distinctive atmosphere, he uses incredible imagery aided by figurative language and symbolism. Nature is the constant in Pablo Neruda’s poetry, but through the imagery, figurative language,
In "This is a Photograph of Me," inspite of the easy assurances of the speaker that we will see her picture, it is clear as the poem develops and the speaker reveals her true identity as a dead person that the clarity she seems to promise never emerges. The challenges in establishing a sense of identity are portrayed in the speaker's description of what the viewer will see as they look at the photo to begin with:
Pablo Neruda is from Chile and gives a voice to Latin America in his poetry (Bleiker 1129). “The United Fruit Co.,” the poem by Pablo Neruda that will be analyzed in this essay, is enriched with symbolism, metaphors, and allusions. These allusions have great emphasis to the Christian religion, but some allusions are used to evoke negative emotions towards the United States (Fernandez 1; Hawkins 42). Personification and imagery along with onomatopoeia and metonymy are also found in “The United Fruit Co.” Neruda’s use of these literary devices makes his messages of imperialism, Marxism, and consumerism understandable (Fernandez 4). In this essay each of these literary devices with its proper meaning will be further analyzed in the hope of achieving a more complex understanding of Neruda’s message.