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- 1. PLEASE ATTRIBUTE CREATIVE COMMONS WITH A LINK TO CREATIVE COMMONS.ORG EXCEPT WHERE OTHERWISE NOTED, THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER: HTTP://CREATIVECOMMONS.ORG/LICENSES/BY-NC/4.0/ Presentation by Isaiah Chea, Pierce College, WA
- 2. MY FATHERS’ GHOST IS CLIMBING IN THE RAIN A NOVEL BY PATRICIO PRON
- 3. HISTORICAL CONTEXT • THE BOOK COVERS THE 1970’S IN ARGENTINA • THE EVENTS KNOW AS THE DIRTY WAR TAKES PLACE • TERRORISM AND DICTATORSHIP BECOMES PREDOMINATE IN ARGENTINA • HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE ARE KILLED • PROTESTS BY THE PEOPLE OF ARGENTINA BREAK OUT
- 4. POLITICAL CONTEXT • THE PERONIST PARTY WINS THE ELECTION • PERON DIES AND HIS WIFE TAKES OVER • THE ARMED FORCES TOOK OVER THE GOVERNMENT • TERRORISM BECOMES UTILIZED THOROUGHLY • WERE ALSO HEAVILY INFLUENCED BY AMERICA
- 5. CULTURAL CONTEXT • THE PEOPLE OF ARGENTINA ALSO HAD A NUEVA CANCION WHERE THEY PROTEST THE GOVERNMENT TREATMENT OF THE PEOPLE. • THEY HAD AN OUT BREAK OF ROCK MUSIC IN ARGENTINA, WHICH WAS PRETTY CONTROVERSIAL AT THAT POINT IN TIME • THE MUSIC WOULD EXPRESS STRUGGLES, FREEDOM, OR ARTISTIC CREATIVITY
- 6. PATRICIO PRON • WAS BORN ON DECEMBER 9, 1975 • WAS BORN IN ROSARIO, ARGENTINA • IS A NOVELIST • NOW HE LIVES IN MADRID, SPAIN • HE GOT A DEGREE IN GERMANY
- 7. POINT OF VIEW THE NOVEL WAS IN THE FIRST-PERSON POINT OF VIEW, TOLD BY THE NARRATOR
- 8. MOOD There was also times of confusion in the story Sadness is shown consistently in the story of the novel There is a sense of pain throughout the novel
- 9. PROTAGONIST • HE IS UNIDENTIFIED THROUGHOUT THE NOVEL • HE IS A WRITER • PREVIOUSLY TRAVELED ALL AROUND THE WORLD • DOESN’T KNOW ABOUT HIS FAMILIES PAST AND EXPERIENCES • HAS A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE OF PEOPLE LIKE HIS FATHER
- 10. PLOT He then thinks about his father's past and his inspiration behind his actions The main character learned of some struggles and issues that his father experienced as an activist He then began to see connections between the resistance and his fathers involvement The narrator saw specific incidents of terrorism that occurred during his fathers time the narrator finds many different documents containing information about his father’s political past He starts to make sense of his parents lives through the writings He looked through his father’s journalisms He looks back on a variety of memories that he had with his family The main character comes home from Germany because his father is in a coma
- 11. THEMES • THE POLITICAL OPPRESSION AND STRUGGLES THAT WAS IN ARGENTINA, IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE LATER GENERATION • FIGHTING THE INJUSTICE DESPITE OPPRESSION • DISCOVERING DIFFERENT
- 12. SYMBOLS I think that the narrator represented the recent generation of people I think the narrator also represented Patricio Pron The father represents the people who experienced the Dictatorship
- 13. INTERPRETATION I THINK THAT THE NOVEL BY PATRICIO PRON WAS WRITTEN IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF A YOUNG MALE FROM THE EARLY 2000’S THAT IS LOOKING AT THE EXPERIENCES OF THE EVENTS FROM THE 1970’S. THE NOVEL CLEARLY SHOWS THE TERRORISM AND DICTATORSHIP OF THE 1970’S. HOWEVER, IT ALLOWS THE AUDIENCE TO EXPERIENCE THIS THROUGH THE LESS PERSONAL INFORMATION OF A JOURNALIST’S DOCUMENTS. IT ALSO SHOWS HOW PEOPLE LIKE THE NARRATOR ARE NOT INFORMED OF THEIR PARENTS PAST BECAUSE THE PARENTS DON’T LIKE TO TALK ABOUT ALL OF THEIR HARD EXPERIENCES. I ALSO THINK THAT THE NOVEL ALLOWS READERS TO SEE HOW PEOPLE TODAY MIGHT SEE THE TERRORISM AND DICTATORSHIP IN ARGENTINA. IT AS SHOWS HOW DIFFERENTLY PEOPLE TODAY MAY SEE THE BELIEFS OF THE GOVERNMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF THE TIME.
- 14. WORK CONSULTED "PATRICIO PRON." CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS ONLINE, GALE, 2014. LITERATURE RESOURCE CENTER, HTTP://EZPROXY.PIERCE.CTC.EDU:2085/APPS/DOC/H1000307264/LITRC?U=PUYA65247&SID=LITRC&XID =CE20D3B7. ACCESSED 12 JUNE 2019. SCHULMAN, MARTHA. "PW TALKS WITH PATRICIO PRON: PAST PRESENT." PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, 18 MAR. 2013, P. 55. LITERATURE RESOURCE CENTER, HTTP://EZPROXY.PIERCE.CTC.EDU:2085/APPS/DOC/A323348559/LITRC?U=PUYA65247&SID=LITRC&XID=283FF95A. ACCESSED 12 JUNE 2019. WRIGHT, THOMAS C. STATE TERRORISM IN LATIN AMERICA : CHILE, ARGENTINA, AND INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS . ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD, 2007. YABLON, ARIEL S. "ARGENTINA." THE OXFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE MODERN WORLD, EDITED BY PETER N. STEARNS, VOL. 1, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2008, PP. 220-224. GALE VIRTUAL REFERENCE LIBRARY, HTTP://EZPROXY.PIERCE.CTC.EDU:2085/APPS/DOC/CX1549100127/GVRL?U=PUYA65247& SID=GVRL&XID=240A39B2. ACCESSED 12 JUNE 2019. MURRAY, EDMUNDO. "DIRTY WAR." THE OXFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE MODERN WORLD, EDITED BY PETER N. STEARNS, VOL. 2, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2008, PP. 530-531. GALE VIRTUAL REFERENCE LIBRARY, HTTP://EZPROXY.PIERCE.CTC.EDU:2085/APPS/DOC/CX1549100566/GVRL?U=PUYA65247&SID=GVRL&XID =6FA1DD27. ACCESSED 12 JUNE 2019. JEHENSON, MYRIAM YVONNE. "STAGING CULTURAL VIOLENCE: GRISELDA GAMBARO AND ARGENTINA'S 'DIRTY WAR.'." MOSAIC: A JOURNAL FOR THE INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDY OF LITERATURE, VOL. 32, NO. 1, 1999, P. 85+. LITERATURE RESOURCE CENTER, HTTP://EZPROXY.PIERCE.CTC.EDU:2085/APPS/DOC/A54482284/LITRC?U=PUYA65247&SID=LITRC&XID=D B7F9566. ACCESSED 12 JUNE 2019.