Discoveries are complex and intensely meaningful experiences that can facilitate the personal development of an individual through stimulating new ideas and values. This ability of discoveries to catalyze an individual’s transformation is clearly shown within Ernesto Che Guevara’s autobiographic text The Motorcycle Diaries and also Darragh O’Connell’s thought-provoking short film 23 Degrees 5 Minutes. In Motorcycle, Guevara’s political identity is shaped through his numerous experiences with the Latin American proletariat that allow him to uncover the cruelty of the capitalist government. His intellectual discoveries result in his transformation from a politically unaware aristocrat to an ambitious and powerful political leader within Cuba’s
