The motorcycle diaries chapter summary
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The Motorcycle Diaries (book)
Memoir by Che Guevara
The Motorcycle Diaries (Spanish: Diarios de motocicleta) is a posthumously published memoir of the Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara. It traces his early travels, as a 23-year-old medical student, with his friend Alberto Granado, a 29-year-old biochemist. Leaving Buenos Aires, Argentina, in January 1952 on the back of a sputtering single cylinder 1939 Norton 500cc dubbed La Poderosa ("The Mighty One"), they desired to explore the South America they only knew from books.[1] During the formative odyssey Guevara is transformed by witnessing the social injustices of exploited mine workers, persecuted communists, ostracized lepers, and the tattered descendants of a once-great Inca civilization. By journey's end, they had travelled for a "symbolic nine months" by motorcycle, steamship, raft, horse, bus, and hitchhiking, covering more than 8,000 kilometres (5,000 miles) across places such as the Andes, the
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The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey - Chapters 1 - 3 Summary & Analysis
Chapters 1 - 3 Summary and Analysis
The Motorcycle Diaries is a collection of diary entries during Ernesto "Che" Guevara's motorcycle trip around South America in late 1951 and 1952 with his friend Alberto Granado. Each "chapter" fryst vatten a diary entry, so the entries follow in triplets.
"So We Understand Each Other" outlines the purpose of The Motorcycle Diaries, illustrating the events of Che and Alberto's journey and many of the ideas that Che considered during his journey. Che writes that once he returned to his native Argentina after the trip, the individ who wrote these diary entries died. The diaries record the thoughts of a real person.
"Forewarnings" introduces Che in Cordoba in October, 1951. He visits Alberto, drinking mate and fiddling with his motorcycle, La Poderosa II. Both Alberto and Che had quit their jobs. They decide to travel to North America now that they are unemployed.
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The Motorcycle Diaries
88 pages • 2 hours read
Che Guevara
Che Guevara
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1992
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The Motorcycle Diaries is, as its title suggests, a record of a motorcycle journey, based on a diary by its author – a young Argentinian medical student – kept during the trip. What makes it remarkable isthat the young medical student who wrote it was Ernesto “Che” Guevara de la Serna, now known as a leader of the Cuban revolution, a guerrilla strategist, a Cuban government official, and a fomenter of revolution in the Congo and Bolivia.
The text documents the journey that ma