Human Perceptions In Che Guevara's 'The Time Machine'

An individual’s discovery is transformative on their perceptions of the world. This is the case for the book ‘The Motorcycle Diaries’ by Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara and Keats’s sonnet “On first looking into Chapman’s Homer”. In this book, we are taken on Che’s journey as he travels Latin America as a young man, before the fame. His diary entries lead the reader into his own eyes, as a typical young man on an adventure, not the revolutionary figure we all associate him with. Through his descriptive entries of the landscape he journeys across, we discover his deeper connection to the land of South America and the love he has for its people. As well as the beautiful things that South America has to

Time traveling, a concept known to modern man as inconceivable, but in The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells, this fathom of human fantasy has come to life. Wells entangles a unique blend of contrasting characters, conflicts of capitalist verses laborer divisions, and foreshadowing of the destruction of humanity to seem together this novel of visionary proportions. "The Time Machine is a bleak and sober vision of man's place in the Universe."(McConnell Pg.1581)

The future of society is an often unpredictable and unpleasant topic due to the many variables which effect it. In “The Lost Island” and in “The City of the End of Things”, the future is depicted as something detrimental to the society each story represents. In Pauline Johnson's short story, “The Lost Island”, this concept is expressed in the visions given by the Medicine Man, who foretells the oppression of his people by the arrival of the colonizers. In Archibald Lampman's poem, “The City of the End of Things”, this concept manifests through the downfall of greater human society in favour of a more robotic era. This essay focuses on how these two texts exemplify the variable nature of the future by focusing on the harmful possibilities

The constituents which significantly construct an individual’s perceptions on the world and themselves, has the potential to alter through their discoveries. These distinct experiences assist in the unveilings of our physical and self-revelations. Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara’s memoir The Motor Cycle Diaries (MD) signifies his mutable perspective of society through personal relations. The Triffids’ 1986 music video for the Wide Open Road (WR), written by David McComb, however, depicts the essence of an emotional struggle and eventual acceptance after the loss of a relationship. Although, these discoveries are pursued by different catalyst, both mediums portray the evidential emotional discovery, ultimately reconsidering the persona’s perspectives.

Santiago, a boy who was just a shephard, went through a journey that tested his limits and gave him an adventure that changed his life forever by changing his perception of taking risks to follow his destiny. Paulo Coelho the author of “The Alchemist” took simple, intelligent Santiago on a journey to find a treasure in the pyramids, but along the way Santiago finds himself in situations out of his comfort zone. From being robed of his money, to getting captured by Arab tribesmen. Through out the book these predicaments taught him that taking risks was okay, for the universe will help him when you’re following your destiny.

Guevara, Che. The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey. Melbourne: Ocean Press, 2003.

In Motorcycle Diaries, Che Guevara realises that the living conditions for most of the South American continent are unsatisfactory and appall him at sight, as he recognises the repression and persecution

In the October of 1951, 23-year-old medical student, Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, and close friend and biochemist Alberto Granado, unanimously decided to embark on a journey via motorbike, that would take them on an adventure the entire span of South America, including Argentina, Chile, Peru, Colombia and Venezuela. Throughout this trip however, Ernesto and Alberto are confronted by the harsh reality of a land filled with injustice, suffering, and the oppression of its people. It is this confrontation of inequality, and Guevara’s own visceral experiences of hunger, cold, illness and fear that resonates throughout the text and contains insight into how young Ernesto became increasingly conscious of the contrasts between the extent of poverty in South America and his own privileged

Imagine being able to travel to any part of the world at any time you please. However, one wrong move and you’ll change the entire world in the future. In the short story, “A Sound of Thunder,” for any little action you take there will be a much worse consequence. Three examples that this book portrays this theme is creating a Time Machine, killing animals, and stepping of the path.

Aleida March, the second wife of the late Cuban Revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara, met her future husband in the fall of 1958 in the Escambray Mountains in Southern Cuba in which she described her first impression of the bearded guerilla fighter to a colleague, “I replied somewhat casually that I thought he wasn't bad, and that I found his penetrating gaze rather intriguing. I saw him as an older man” (“Married”). Their marriage would last through the tumultuous years following the Cuban Revolution and would end upon the death of the Marxist Revolutionary during an attempted uprising in Bolivia. Señora March’s description of Geuvara as “an older man” (“March”) fits the personality of a man who not only was aware of his place in the world but

The premise of a sequel to H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine could have been treated in a number of ways. Some analysts have commended Wells for his literal-minded approach which they find to be his pastiche. To some however, the opposite (the Hollywood approach) is facetious and throws out everything related to Wells, retaining the association only for marketing purposes. A Scientific Romance has a different and unique approach altogether. For instance, Ronald Wright’s style and approach is exceptional and difficult to describe properly. The author uses Wells’ masterpiece as a non-linear launch point to better The Time Machine in a way that no other time travel stories has done. This is evident with his elegant prose, mainly, and the resultant

In The Time Machine, the characters all seem to have rights similar to the ones in the U.S. like: the freedom of speech and the right to peacefully assemble. For instance, every Thursday the Time Traveler has a meeting or get-together of some sort, meaning they can have peaceful assemblies, and they talk about many subjects, meaning that either they have rules about what they are allowed to talk about that don't apply to what they are doing, or they have the freedom of speech. I believe that both groups have rights similar to those of U.S. citizens, and that they probably have other ones besides the ones mentioned before, because with every society, there has to be structure and rules holding it together.

Although a great deal changed in the time span of Ché Guevara's career as a revolutionary Guevara from Cuba to Bolivia was fighting for similar issues. In the eventual triumph of the 26th July movement Cuba progressed a great deal and Ché and his revolutionaries believed that this success could be replicated across Latin America. Some of the issues affecting Cuba where high rates of illiteracy 37% of Cubans could not read or write. High illiteracy rates were also coupled with a high percentage of poverty among Cubans. Half the population had no electricity and were living in shacks And, more likely than not that land they lived on they most likely didn't own with 1.5% of the landowners controlling 46 % of the land.

For many years, the well-known novelist, H.G. Wells has captivated the minds and imaginations of readers with his multiple best-selling books; The Invisible Man, The Island of Dr. Moreau, and The War of the Worlds. These selections however are not Wells’ most controversial novel. The Time Machine, written in 1895, is Wells’ most talked about work. Multiple different themes and various sides are seen to be taken within this novel, one of these main themes being the separation of classes. While the Morlock’s and the Eloi, in H.G. Wells’ novel; The Time Machine, play an extremely important role in distinguishing the future for this book, one has reason to believe that there is a broader underlying meaning for these two types of

In The Motorcycle Diaries, Guevara’s discoveries of the devastating effects of US neo-colonialism in Latin America are only fully understood upon his rediscoveries of the equally harmful nature of not only tourism, but also his own vagabond traveling. Through their encounters with farm labourers, Guevara’s initial discovery of the Araucanian race’s “deep suspicion of the white man who… now continues to exploit them” is shown through the prominent motif of sharing mate, which highlights the early understanding between them. However, this understanding is expanded upon reaching Cuzco, where the symbolic juxtaposition of the three layers of the city emphasises his reassessment of how “a hesitant tourist [also] pass[es] over things superficially”. Even further, in Guevara’s encounter with the Chilean communist couple, graphic imagery accentuates his rediscovery of the “parasitic nature” of not