"CHE Part II"

In the Diary of Che Guevara we read of his military experiences throughout South America. In “The Murdered Puppy,” I was sick with the unnecessary animal cruelty and indifference of life. Only until confronted with the eyes of a dog did the men feel remorse for their actions. It does say something however that the author chose to include this memory and experience is his diary. Hopefully, the experience taught these men something about the powerful abusing something innocent and unable to protect itself. The correlation of the Latin people and the powerful white man it evident within the story. The Latin people wanted to be included in the world, just as the puppy wanted to be part of the march, and the powerful wanted nothing to do with it, so they strangled it, a simple metaphor for what the powerful and corrupt world did unto Central and South America. The first year struggles and hardships the guerilla’s soldiers faced is documented in further chapters. I however, enjoyed the more personal account of the first chapter, even though it was disturbing, to that of the second chapter, I felt like I got a more accurate description of everyday life on the road as a guerilla soldier, than that of the descriptions of their movements and hardships accounted for in the second chapter.