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Lather and Nothing Else: Research
Read both short stories: "Sniper" or "Lather and Nothing Else." Choose one of the required stories and write a research-based essay in which you analyze the historical context and its effect on the writing of the story. (500 words, typed, double-spaced, MLA format).
time to investigate
Answer the following questions and explain how you found the information
1. Where does this story take place? A Hispanic country that has experience a civil war.
2. When does this story take place (within 2-3 years)? The story was published in 1950, so the events had to take place before 1950. Tellez is from Columbia. La Violencia (the Violence) began with the 9 April 1948 assassination of the politician Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, a Liberal Party presidential candidate who was very popular among mainstream Colombian society; his political murder provoked the Bogotazo rioting that lasted for ten hours and killed some 5,000 people. An alternative historical perspective of La Violencia proposed 1946 as the start of civil-war violence, the year when the Conservatives returned to government power; when rural-town police and political leaders encouraged Conservative-party peasants to seize the agricultural lands of Liberal-party peasants, which provoked peasant-to-peasant violence throughout Colombia; a civil war for control of the country’s agricultural land. The violence is estimated to have cost the lives of at least 200,000 people
3. Who are the two sides fighting in this war? The haves against the have nots
4. Why are they fighting? The people in control use force and violence to control the majority who are poor.
1. Where does this story take place? A Hispanic country that has experience a civil war.
2. When does this story take place (within 2-3 years)? The story was published in 1950, so the events had to take place before 1950. Tellez is from Columbia. La Violencia (the Violence) began with the 9 April 1948 assassination of the politician Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, a Liberal Party presidential candidate who was very popular among mainstream Colombian society; his political murder provoked the Bogotazo rioting that lasted for ten hours and killed some 5,000 people. An alternative historical perspective of La Violencia proposed 1946 as the start of civil-war violence, the year when the Conservatives returned to government power; when rural-town police and political leaders encouraged Conservative-party peasants to seize the agricultural lands of Liberal-party peasants, which provoked peasant-to-peasant violence throughout Colombia; a civil war for control of the country’s agricultural land. The violence is estimated to have cost the lives of at least 200,000 people
3. Who are the two sides fighting in this war? The haves against the have nots
4. Why are they fighting? The people in control use force and violence to control the majority who are poor.
5. What were the results of this war? The violence continues today. Those in control still use violence and fear to the majority.
6. What effects does this war still have on them today? Massacres and death. The United State became involved in the 1960s helping the military destroy peasants who wanted redistrubute the land. 7. What message is the author presenting? |
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