Che: The Diaries of Ernesto Che Guevara ; Pages: 63- 94

Summary: Che Guevara brings up many battles that happened as a result to the guerilla going to Cuba. He brought to the attention of the reader that the guerilla did not win all the battles, in fact, his description of what went on seemed for realistic than what historic articles make it seem like. In many cases I found to be true that an article picks a side, usually it’s the affirmative side or the side that wins the challenge, and the author decides to mention many of the pro’s that the side had experienced. In the novel, Che did not do as I anticipated; he mentioned the losses that his men suffered, and vex they went through when losing a battle. In this section of his diary, Che mentioned in detail the plans of the guerilla. For example, in the novel he mentions what neighboring towns the guerilla needed to attack, and the reasons for their attacks.

**The man with the rifle that's sitting down near the center of the photograph is Ernesto Che Guevara.

Quotation: "Help came not only from people in neighboring villages; even the urban bourgeoisie contributed equipment to the guerilla struggle" (Guevara 74).

Reaction: The quote shows how people began to abet the guerilla. The people of Cuba that helped the guerilla began to assist them on their own, it’s not like they were coerced to provide help. Though it’s not mentioned in the quote, Che also mentioned that peasants began to join the guerilla, and as a result they were trained for future battles. It’s as if the people began to see that the present dictator at the time was not moving the country any further along, and they began to think that it was time for change. Now, the guerilla could have made that change for them, and that’s why many peasants began to help the guerilla with equipment like things. As long as the peasant did not go bacchanalian in their effort to overthrow the government, and kept their motives in a furtive matter, they wouldn’t have been attacked by Batista’s forces (Batista was the dictator of Cuba at the time). In the novel, especially in the pages I read in regard to this post, the type of narration was different. In previous pages, the novel consisted of diary passages. In the pages I’ve read for this post, the diary passages came to a close. Though, it was still told in first person, and the narrator did not change, I believe the tone did change. With the diary passages, the novel felt more like it was omniscient, as I was able to get into Che’s mind, as for the pages which did not consist of diaries, the narration was more of just first person without the omniscient.