Summary
The Diary Starts out by introducing the protagonist named Ernesto Guevara who is later known in history as Che. Ernesto is a medical student and his best friend named Alberto is a Biochemist who worked at a Leper Colony in Fransisco Del Char. Ernesto and Alberto are both from Argentina, and thought of the idea to explore North America by improvising. They plan on going on a motorcycle named " La Poderosa" meaning the powerful. They take with them there necessities, and a dog named comeback who is a gift for Chinchina, Ernesto's girlfriend. They begin there travels and stop in a town named Miramar to give Comeback to Chinchina, in return she gives him a gold bracelet to symbolize there love. They travel through sand dunes in Medanos, Argentina, and they fall off the motorcycle constantly. Dr. Choele Choel receives them when Ernesto gets the Flu and he recuperates. They brake there headlights, therefore at night have to travel with a torch on the road and suffer of hunger and thirst. They feel uncomfortable when they encounter Araucanian people who hold grudges against white people in Argentina, it becomes unbelievable for a doctor to appear famished and poorly dressed to ask for a food or a place to stay. They arrive at San Marting De Los Andes, where they are forced to sleep in a national park shed, where they agreed with the man who lives there to work as hot Dog workers in order to get meat for the trip. While being on the job, Ernesto gets drunk of the wine they were selling and after take the left over materials they didn't sell as pay. When Ernesto and Alberto wake up, there drinks are gone, they were broke, but feel encouraged that they are well fed. They meet some of Alberto's friends who pick them up and take them to Junin de los Andes. After, they go hiking and catch a duck at night and eat it, they get paid and head off. Ernesto writes a letter to his mother mentioning his experiences. they arrive at a mans house who agrees to let them stay and fix there motorcycle, and he warns them of the puma's around the area, at night Ernesto with fear shoots at the family dog thinking its a puma and they get kicked out. They a ferry to cross a lake through Chile, and they lecture other Doctors of Leprosy, and converse about the issue. Correo de Valvida newspaper writes and article of them and there mission to study Leprosy across the Americas. They notice the Indigenous Chileans and Anglo Saxon immigrants great separation, which is not a huge issue in they were used to in there community. A man named Raul gives them a place to sleep in Temuco, Chile and they are given much respect in the town for being leprosy explorers.
Quote
"In nine months of a man's life he can think a lot of things, from the loftiest meditations on philosophy to the most desperate longing for a bowl of soup - in total accord with he state of his stomach. And if , at the same time, he's somewhat of an adventurer he might live through episodes of interest to other people and his haphazard record night read something like these notes."
Reaction
My reaction to this quotation was that I had to read it over for about three times. Then I understood that the Ernesto comes out of the reading, using dual-voice narrator, using his voice after his journey through Latin America. He explains his guess for why the reader may be reading his diary, he indirectly comes out as a older voice using a second person point of view, which is common. He uses sophisticated vocabulary, but it is a bit confusing, maybe because of me not being used to reading such type of writing, or because of the fact this book is translated from Spanish to English. Without doubt, his writing is quite deep.
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