Response to Angela's Blog (2/1/2018)

After reading through many of our classmates' blog posts this week, yours especially caught my attention.  Not only did you hit the nail on the head in the second paragraph, analyzing Echeverría's political allegory, but your personal connection to the subject matter was intriguing.  For me, this is exactly what our blogs are supposed to represent, a blending of course content with our own lives and experiences.  For you, a large part of this story's impact was the distinct imagery you associate with a slaughterhouse.  Based on this, you used not only your own experience, but textual analysis to provide insight about the story.  I haven't grown up around 4-H, or raising livestock, so I had no accurate image of a slaughterhouse as I read the short story, potentially holding me back from fully understanding it.

 I also enjoyed how you addressed the religious undertones and linked them to Echeverría's greater meaning in the allegory.  Throughout his story, Echeverría characterizes the church as not only controlling, but oblivious to the needs of the people.  This was done in an effort to show how Rosas's government and the Federalists too were controlling and oblivious to the needs of the people.  Echeverría makes this clear in the line you quoted, “from this foregoing episode it can be clearly seen that the headquarters of the Federation were located in the Slaughter House”.   In this moment, Echeverría presents a clear and realized summary of the allegory, and asks his readers to acknowledge the ills of their society.  

-J

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