Week 12

This is a love story that you don’t hear every day. Camila a young girl from Argentine, meets and falls in love with the newest addition to her local church, father Gutierrez. Camila confesses her feelings to him and he warns her of the danger in saying what she is saying, meaniwhile father Gutierrez is fights the urge , he can’t help but to fall in love. He can’t seem to practice what he is preaching.


Knowing that their love will not be allowed of excepted, they decide to run away together to a small village. They open up a school there and Camila becomes pregnant. But back home he father (who has disowned her, and the government are looking for them. Wanted flyers are hung and e veryone is on the look out. Unfortenatly, while at a party, the couple is recognized and arrested. Without the help of her father, Camila and her lover are destined for death.
The story of Camila doesn’t end as happily as Love in The Time of Cholera did. Although both were forbidden loves. Unlike Florentino and Fermina, Camila and Father Gutierrez are both killed in the end. However, I like to think that they are still happily together in a better place now, with their baby, safe and free from hiding, falling more in love with each other every minute.


Camila and the father knew that they could not live up to their full potential or even together in their home village. In order to grow and escape the tyranny of their government. Freire had strong ideas about how people can struggle under their governments rule. And how they can rise above their oppression and become better.

It remindes me of the song Rise, by the Flobots because of the rising up beyond society and government philosophy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QC6Ur-bC7U


This story pushes the boundaries because the couples in the story die at the end. It is odd for a story to end so cruelly, but this is a true story, so the pain is realistic. It is sad but true.

Beatriz: Florentino felt that he was unable to be with Fermina because of his status

Brandon: It is not just a Latin American or Columbian story but a story about love and class struggle.

Jamison: "The next day, neither of them could imagine going back home and Florentino proposes that they "keep going, going, going, back to La Dorada." Asked by the Captain how long he thinks they can keep up this coming and going, Florentino's answer is simply, "forever."

Kathy: This story is based on social status.

Kelsey: The movie, Love in the Time of Cholera, is set around the year 1900 where women marry for money and not love.

Kim: Fermina’s Aunt helps in the passing of letters back and forth between the two young lover

Maria: he comes down with Cholera but believes that the fever is just because he has fallen in love with her.

Melissa: Years pass and Florentio is convinced that if he climbs in social status he will get Fermina back once her husband dies, since he is willing to wait forever for Fermina.

Mike: The separation between physical age and the essence of your being is interesting to me in that while your physical being may get old and deteriorate your spirit can remain constant. It is only when you let your physical age control your spirit that you begin to wither away.

Nancy: There are several forms of oppression and prejudice present in this story: Fermina’s father rejects Florintino as a suitable suitor for Fermina because he is lower class.