Introduction The Underdogs has long being debated about whether it have reflected the Mexican Revolution accurately. This essay try to prove that The Underdogs wrote about part of the Revolution through analyzing its limitations in terms of time, space, protagonists and so on. And truly The Underdogs is a great epic work about Mexican Revolution.
Summary about the novel The Underdogs was a novel had its background set in the Mexican Revolution. It mainly described a group of Indians who want to be benefited by the revolution but failed at the end. The reason for their failure is complex, Some historians think that peasants are incapable of leading a Revolution to success. And ultimately what the novel exhibit to readers is a group of poor …show more content…
Take Villistas and Zapatistas as example, these two words describes differences reflecting regional variations of class relations. Villa and Zapata each built movements grounded in the rural poor of their homelands. For Villa, that meant demanding small private properties for ranchero families. While for Zapata, that meant seeking lands and autonomy for peasant villagers. This influenced how they take steps to achieve their goal. While Zapata built a gueeeila movement defensively anchored in Morelos villages, Villa organized mobile, offensive armies capable of fighting far beyond the borderlands. Zapata could thus effect land reform immediately; Villa had to insist on a delay. These movements were not differed because of the leaders limited visions, they differed because of Zapata’s and Villa’s clear grasp of the demands of their regional followings. So the process of Revolution could be very different due to regional …show more content…
As he only focusses on a small group during the Revolution, and he ignored all the virtues. If read carefully, it’s easy to find that the novel is full of detailed portraits of the “underdogs”—those lowlife India peasants. Their faces, expressions, actions, thoughts, hopes and fears fill the pages of the novel. These group of people are actually the central of this novel. Azuela had no interests about writing about the famous people in Revolution, although many of the leaders’ names are mentioned in the novel. But Azuela didn’t take time to care about them so much. All of these reflect author’s concern about the “underdogs”. Azuela wrote this novel for those who lived poorly like Demetrio and his group during Mexican Revolution. So he didn’t waste time singing the praises of the great Revolution. However, just as what he responsed to those who blamed him for his narrow version, he is neither a professional historian nor a government official, but an independent writer. So readers should view The Underdogs as a historic novel, which reflected the peasants experience during 1913-1915 in the central and western part of
Summary about the novel The Underdogs was a novel had its background set in the Mexican Revolution. It mainly described a group of Indians who want to be benefited by the revolution but failed at the end. The reason for their failure is complex, Some historians think that peasants are incapable of leading a Revolution to success. And ultimately what the novel exhibit to readers is a group of poor …show more content…
Take Villistas and Zapatistas as example, these two words describes differences reflecting regional variations of class relations. Villa and Zapata each built movements grounded in the rural poor of their homelands. For Villa, that meant demanding small private properties for ranchero families. While for Zapata, that meant seeking lands and autonomy for peasant villagers. This influenced how they take steps to achieve their goal. While Zapata built a gueeeila movement defensively anchored in Morelos villages, Villa organized mobile, offensive armies capable of fighting far beyond the borderlands. Zapata could thus effect land reform immediately; Villa had to insist on a delay. These movements were not differed because of the leaders limited visions, they differed because of Zapata’s and Villa’s clear grasp of the demands of their regional followings. So the process of Revolution could be very different due to regional …show more content…
As he only focusses on a small group during the Revolution, and he ignored all the virtues. If read carefully, it’s easy to find that the novel is full of detailed portraits of the “underdogs”—those lowlife India peasants. Their faces, expressions, actions, thoughts, hopes and fears fill the pages of the novel. These group of people are actually the central of this novel. Azuela had no interests about writing about the famous people in Revolution, although many of the leaders’ names are mentioned in the novel. But Azuela didn’t take time to care about them so much. All of these reflect author’s concern about the “underdogs”. Azuela wrote this novel for those who lived poorly like Demetrio and his group during Mexican Revolution. So he didn’t waste time singing the praises of the great Revolution. However, just as what he responsed to those who blamed him for his narrow version, he is neither a professional historian nor a government official, but an independent writer. So readers should view The Underdogs as a historic novel, which reflected the peasants experience during 1913-1915 in the central and western part of