Now the political symbolism is becoming clear.
"The violence of the system needed to be answered with the violence of revolution" - Miguel
The Country was changing from this debate over the establishment versus the revolutionaries. I love the graphic display found in chapter eleven. It feels very much like a revolution would in South America, tainted by Marx but with a new flavor. Even so, it still had all the same ingredients. The atmosphere of society had changed, as was noticed by Jaime. "...polarizing everyone into two extremes and leaving the center to a flighty, indecisive group that was waiting to see who the winner might be so they could vote for him." This violence in the existing establishment was suitably bad enough on its own (as we have read so far in this novel) but violence as a replacement, and as a recompense through revolution? These two are much set up like a false dichotomy. I wonder where it will lead . . .
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"The violence of the system needed to be answered with the violence of revolution" - Miguel
The Country was changing from this debate over the establishment versus the revolutionaries. I love the graphic display found in chapter eleven. It feels very much like a revolution would in South America, tainted by Marx but with a new flavor. Even so, it still had all the same ingredients. The atmosphere of society had changed, as was noticed by Jaime. "...polarizing everyone into two extremes and leaving the center to a flighty, indecisive group that was waiting to see who the winner might be so they could vote for him." This violence in the existing establishment was suitably bad enough on its own (as we have read so far in this novel) but violence as a replacement, and as a recompense through revolution? These two are much set up like a false dichotomy. I wonder where it will lead . . .
I commented on AK and Clabo's
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