Zapata

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Zapata: The Ideology of a Peasant Revolutionary Zapata: The Ideology of a Peasant Revolutionary portrays the fight of the Mexicans' and Indians' to gain freedom, from the people who were 'superior' to them. The powerful story tells about a group of peasants who put their trust one man, Zapata, who led them into a revolution. Zapata, written by Robert P. Milon is a very confusing work. He uses many wordy details and jumps between events in a very fluttery way. When new people make an entrance in the book he does not make a good transition between the events. He could have added more scenes to help the dialogue move smoother. The author also jumped around with a very confusing time-line. Emiliano Zapata was born on August 8, 1879, in Anenecuilco. Zapata was the son of a mestizo peasant who trained and sold horses. He was orphaned at the age of 17 and had to look after his brothers and sisters. In 1897, he was arrested for taking part in a protest. From this you can see that he was a hard worker from the start. He was mestizo, and therefore oppressed by the upper class. In 1909 he was elected president of village defense committee. This part is very moving because it happens early in the story but it shows the first glimmer of hop

e for these people. By 1910, Zapata, was already planning things and he led his people on two peaceful demonstrations. This was the start of a revolution with Zapata and his followers letting everyone know that they would not take it anymore. The story goes on about the struggle of Zapata and his followers, but by page 36 the hero is lying dead from a trap he fell into. Being that the book starts on page 11, the central character dies rather quickly for the whole book to be about him. After Zapata dies the author attempts to flash back and recap everything that happened between page 11 and page 36, so this book appears to be like in media res stlye. Which is a style of writing by starting in the middle, going ahead, and then telling the beginning. (Oedipus is an example of this). In Chapter II (Agrarianism), the author hastily tried to put all of these Plans, and Articles into the story. He bounced from paragraph to paragraph taking up a new point of an article in each one. The plan of Ayala, first appears on page 40, and by the next paragraph he is running away with Articles VI, VII, and VIII. After that Millon is discussing the two revisions this plan had. By the next page, he is talking about a pamphlet that was used. By page 45 he is introducing a new manifesto. It seemed that every paragraph started with a date saying Zapata addressed so and

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Approximate Word count = 913
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)

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