Literary Analysis of "The Word of the Mute"
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ScribdTranslationsLITERARY ANALYSIS OF THE WORK
THE WORD OF THE MUTE
ALIGNMENT
AUTOR:Julio Ramón Ribeyro.
I. HISTORICAL CONTEXT:
The work takes place in the mid-20th century.
for the first time in 1973.
He is recognized within the literary movement as one of the
better.
II. BIOGRAPHY OF THE AUTHOR:
Julio Ramón Ribeyro was born in Lima on August 31.
1929.
He was the son of Julio Ramón Ribeyro Bonello and Mercedes.
Zúñiga Rabines, a middle-class couple.
He studied at the Champagnat school in Miraflores, Lima.
Studied Literature and Law at the Catholic University of
Peru won a scholarship to study journalism in Spain.
The following year he moved to Paris, where he wrote The
vultures without feathers, her most famous work.
He traveled through Germany and Belgium. In 1960, he won the Prize
National Novel Award for his work Chronicle of San Gabriel.
He returned to Paris and dedicated himself to journalism, winning the Award
National Literature.
In 1993, he won the National Culture Award.
He married Alida Cordero and had a son.
He passed away in Lima due to a cancer illness.
stomach on December 4, 1994.
His most recognized works are:
- Los gallinazos sin plumas (1955)
The Bottles and the Men (1964)
Silvio in El Rosedal (1977)
Only for smokers (1987).
Chronicle of San Gabriel (1960)
- Los geniecillos dominicales (1965).
Santiago, the Birdman (1975) and
Atusparia (1981)
- La Palabra del Mudo (1973)
III. ARGUMENT OF THE WORK:
Today we will talk about “Alignment” one of the best
stories from the book The Word of the Mute. The author of this book
it is the Peruvian writer Julio Ramón Ribeyro, one of the
best writers of Latin American literature.
This story is about Roberto, a black boy who
ends up despising herself and trying to be someone else
due to the harsh words that one day Queca said to him, I don't
game with zambos! These words changed his life and it
they led to a terrible end.
Queca was the most desired girl in the neighborhood and everyone wanted her.
they admired, however, she not only wanted her friends
they were white but rather 'gringos', that is to say foreigners. Roberto
he realized that to have success and the affection of girls like
It was not enough for Queca to be white; she had to become one.
into a 'gringo'. Roberto tries to become another person,
for that reason he separates from his family and friends, he starts
to learn English and strives hard until achieving change.
He has changed and accompanied by his friend José María, he travels to
United States with all its saved money, which it believed
that would last him a month, but in reality it lasts a week.
Roberto and José María were in misery and the only way out
to go to the army and fight for the Americans in exchange for
the long-awaited nationality, unfortunately Roberto dies
in the war. His best friend, José María, survives; but
he becomes disabled and takes it upon himself to deliver the bad news to the mother
of Roberto, who dies of a heart attack from the shock.
IV. LITERARY CURRENT:
Modernism.
Alignment belongs to the storybook "The Bottle and the
men.
V. LITERARY GENRE: Narrative.
In my opinion, the structure that Ribeyro uses, the story is
narrated in the form of a memory and that changes the order a bit
of things and the knot extends throughout the story and not
There is a defined line between the knot and the end.
VI. LITERARY GENRE: Short story.
Because it is as if I were recounting a lived experience when telling
the lived experience of Roberto.
VII. SCENARIO: In Bolognesi Square, Lima.
VIII. CHARACTERS:
- Personajes Principales:
Roberto López. He was a short boy with hair
he who wanted to stop being a zambo, had a
inferiority complex due to the color of his skin.
He was the son of a laundrywoman.
Secondary Characters:
Queca: A beautiful girl from Miraflores, had eyes
green eyes, brown hair, and some pretty legs.
I studied at La Reparación school, and all the
Boys were in love with her.
Billy Mulligan: The red-haired and freckled man was the son of a
senior official of the United States consulate
United. Gets married to Queca.
José María Cabanillas. Friend of Roberto López.
Lucas of Tramontana.
Cahuide Morales.
the Washerwoman María (Roberto's mother).
Father Queca. An employee who worked in buses.
Let's go, Sander.
Armando Wolf.
Wig Rodríguez
IX. HECHOS PRINCIPALES:
Roberto López, a mixed-race man from Lima, son of a black woman.
laundress.
Roberto dyes his hair and straightens it.
Roberto applies powder to make his skin...
paler.
Roberto decides to learn English and dresses like
North American.
Roberto and his friend manage to raise money to carry out
ambitious trip to the U.S.
X. CRITICAL APPRECIATION:
MENSAJE:
This story teaches us how important it is to feel pride in
our origin and take into account how hurtful they can be
our words, dear friends, let us reflect on what
what we say and always try not to hurt with our
words. On the other hand, in the story we can find the
the theme of discrimination and shows us to what extremes
A person can reach a point when they are very discriminated against, due to
we must always remember that we are a country for everyone
the bloods, where no race is superior to another, for the
on the contrary, our differences make us a country
WONDERFUL, let's feel proud of our land and
our origin.
OPINION:
I liked the strong way of being in love, but
I didn't like that I wanted to change to please someone else.
a person and they did not appreciate what they really were worth.