Week 11

51 years, 9 months, 4 days
I chose to watch the film version of Love in the Time of Cholera, because of my love for Benjamin Bratt. Although, I do not favor is character in the movie, you can’t say that he isn’t a simply brilliant addition to the cast.
The plot is classic, boy meets girl, boy loves girl, boy loses girl… it is the whole star crossed lovers situation that we are all familiar with. However, there are aspects of this story that give a fresh new look at the longevity of true love.
When Florentino Ariza meets and falls in love with Fermina Daza it seems that they will be together forever. However, as in many love other stories they don’t just ride off into the sunset. Fermina’s father refuses to allow their relationship to grow and sends her off to live with relatives. Florentino is left with nothing but persistence. Florentino waits for true love for 51 years, 9 months, 4 days. This persistence sure pays off for Florentino in Love In The Time Of Cholera. In the end, true love is at last his, together, forever.
Freire’s ideas are important to the story, because Florentino is able to realize that he is not as good as he can be. That as long as there are people like Dr. Juvenal Urbino that he could always be better. Florentino made the choice to become rich and successful like Dr. Juvenal Urbino in order to be worthy of his true love.
Also another important aspect that involves Freire is that the couple corresponded via written letters. Had the couple been illiterate and words had not been written to express true love then the love may not have blossomed.
Any time that a person from the “wrong side of the tracks” falls for an upperclass person, then all hell breaks loose. This story crosses borders, because it proves the point that true love waits and is everlasting and impossible to break, no matter how much change you carry in your pockets.




1. Susan: Rigoberta Menchu is an activist who campaigned against human right violations committed by the Guatemalan armed forces.
2. Alyssa: Ceaser Chavez was born on March 31st, 1927.
3. Brandon: He used to be a migrant farm worker and he was appalled with the conditions of the job.
4. Candace: there was a very strong female presence during the Boom.
5. Jamison: Growing up I will always remember running around under the great mural that is paint on the school that shows Cesar Chavez and and other great people to bless us with their work and life.6. Kathy: Dario wrote a poem titled A Roosevelt (To Roosevelt) in January of 1904 in Malaga, Spain in reaction to the US's involvement during the Separation of Panama from Colombia.
7. Kelsey: Some female writers are Chilean Isabel Allende, Argentine Luisa Valenzuela, Chilean Diamela Eltit, Mayra Montero, Daina Chaviano, Zoe Valdes, and Angeles Mastretta.
8. Kim: In many countries, the Deaf sign languages are barred in schools for the deaf and are used mainly outside the classroom and within the Deaf community.
9. Logan: Servants learned to speak with their hands and use of specific facial expressions. I found this interesting because most people believe singing is specifically about learning how to read hands when the reality is that there is a huge emphasis on reading a persons facial expressions and lips when they communicating through signing.
10. Maria: The most known authors at those time wrote about their Latin American countries giving their novels a historical theme