0000005003 00000 n 0000001776 00000 n Their primary reason for coming is to gossip, and they talk... Latest answer posted January 9, 2009 4:13 am UTC. Does Azuela do enough to represent the position of women in Mexican society and in the revolution? Why does this happen? Azuela, who sided with the Maderistas, briefly served the Madero regime as chief of political affairs in Lagos de Moreno. The soldiers had retreated, and Demetrio begins searching for the horses that the soldiers... Latest answer posted January 8, 2009 6:39 am UTC. Let's start with Demetrio's entry in the Revolution. He... Latest answer posted January 8, 2009 9:22 am UTC. Demetrio returns home after an absence of two years, and his wife, "mad with joy" rushes to meet him, holding a young child by the hand. 0000019660 00000 n
Is he to be praised for abandoning a cause he could no longer morally support, or is he to be condemned for leaving his comrades in a desperate time? H�\��j�0����l/�G�`i�B.����8�$k��Fq.��;ǧta �>#��4.���>��+��=��N}�^�[n��ܧbY��o������4cQZ��~���O���kW������a� G},�o��ܧ�{��=�?z�4��[�]�'�Ҍ_���r. 0000002437 00000 n The fiery idealism that has scorched the foundations of power now threatens to erupt into an inferno of anarchic rage, and the revolution that the common people had hailed as a blessing seems likely to transform into the blackest of curses.
Although the rebel attack on Zacatecas is unsuccessful, the fighters come back "as happily as when they had marched away a few days before, pillaging every hamlet along the road, every ranch,... Latest answer posted January 8, 2009 9:56 am UTC. What do they gain from each other?
0000022139 00000 n Marcias is a simple man who is ignorant of the impending... Latest answer posted December 21, 2008 11:09 pm UTC. Demetrio Macias, a poor, illiterate Indian, must join the rebels to save his family. They are reminded of the old days when the revolution was just beginning, and the bells in the... Latest answer posted January 9, 2009 3:52 am UTC. 0000032184 00000 n On a dark night in the Mexican Sierra, an undisciplined band of Federales fighting for the despised dictator Victoriano Huerta descend upon the rancho of Demetrio Macìas, who has already won a reputation for courage in the skirmishes of the Mexican Revolution. monsters .
Do these traits remain consistent throughout the novel? Although completely exhausted, he couldn't sleep. 0000183275 00000 n 0000015153 00000 n 0000165488 00000 n Demetrio has just left his house and has witnessed the soldiers burning it down. In 1910, Azuelaís peaceful pursuits were disrupted when a revolutionary force under Francisco Madero overthrew the repressive dictatorship of Porfirio Dìaz. How does Cervantesís opinion of the revolution change as the novel develops? In the next to last chapter of the novel, Macìas tells his wife that, having started on a violent path, he can no more stop fighting in the revolution than a pebble tossed into a canyon can stop falling. After having lived among Macìasís men awhile, Cervantes States his belief that Macìas has not yet understood the importance of his role in the revolution�what Cervantes calls Macìasí ìtrue . When?
Demetrio Macias dies at the end of the story. Forced to immigrate to El Paso, Texas, Azuela settled there and reworked his memories of the revolution into a novel, Los de Abajo, known to English-speaking readers as The Underdogs. They are looking forward to meeting up with and defeating Monico. Early in the novel, Macìas and twenty of his followers fire two rounds at an ambushed group of Federales and, somewhat astonishingly, every single shot results in a deadly wound. Early the next morning Demetrio's group left for Tepatitlan. At once, he remembers... Latest answer posted January 11, 2009 3:01 pm UTC. The men scaled the rear wall of the chapel and halted. 0000011193 00000 n Does each have something to teach that the other is incapable of learning? Discuss the relationship between Macìas and Cervantes. 0000243755 00000 n . However, instead of narrating Macìasís death, Azuela leaves the reader with the image of him still fighting.
0000165460 00000 n 0000015999 00000 n Do you prefer seeing the names translated or untranslated? Demetrio is devastated over the death of Camilla. DISCUSSION QUESTIONS In the first chapter of The Underdogs, Macìas has a chance to kill the Federales who will soon after come back and destroy his house.
He... Latest answer posted January 9, 2009 2:46 am UTC. Demetrio relates that he was born in Limon, "right in the heart of the Juchipila canyon". 0000005410 00000 n
They approach the town of Juchipila, and Valderrama counts the crosses along the side of the... Latest answer posted January 9, 2009 3:38 am UTC. {�w6�O�'�����}TW��KʴC�ױi57�E��g��w{օ��y�b����nrQWX�X�`,d?���/����ߌW˙m0��xE^�=ك9�7䍱�z���k������fd���%ؗ�VP+܋`/�A�0G�#t� 3e�|%���)�y�� Their spirits were such that they were laughing at how Pancracio even shot a civilian, leaving him in the street, because he... Latest answer posted January 11, 2009 12:27 am UTC. They began their progress again at midnight to take the soldiers by surprise before light. A dedicated foe of the privileged classes who dominated Mexico throughout his youth, Azuela had been stirred by the promise of radical political change that he saw in the Mexican revolution. War Paint is helping the men pillage through the homes and belongings of the rich. Start Your Free Trial. 0000006621 00000 n
Soon the band absorbs an unlikely ally in the person of Luis Cervantes, a city aristocrat, or curro, whose disgust with the injustice of his countryís society has led him to embrace the growing Mexican Revolution. His revolutionaries begin to reveal themselves as men of ignorant brutality, and the more enlightened among them discover to their horror that they may be serving only to erect ìan enormous pedestal upon which . All are drinking and enjoying themselves, yet Demetrio misses Camilla. Do you think Azuela uses Cervantes to express points of view that were likely to have been similar to Azuelaís? 0000007485 00000 n The 1908 publication of his novel Los Fracasados (The Failures) identified him as a novelist of promise. 0000031560 00000 n Quail begins this chapter explaining to the others that Demetrio had sent them with Luis to go back and get Camilla from her camp. The motivations of the characters in The Underdogs reflect the diversity of purposes behind those who took part in the Mexican Revolution. How would you shoot the scene?