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This 5 page paper discusses Mariano Azuela's book on the Mexican Revolution, "The Underdogs." It consists of a summary and analysis. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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their struggles for independence. But at times it seems more like a morality play than anything else. This paper summarizes the novel, and then analyzes it. Summary For a book
about an armed conflict, the novel is painfully lacking in strategic details, descriptions of campaigns or even an attempt to present the soldiers of the other side as real people.
Instead, it is a picaresque tale of Macias and his band of fighters, and their day-to-day activities as they fought for freedom. It seems more like an extended series of
snapshots than a novel, because we get so little information about whats going on in the world at large. We simply go along for the ride and watch as Macias
and the others (Anastasio Montanez, Quail, Pancracio) engage in a series of skirmishes, drink a great deal, steal women from one another and finally, die in a hail of bullets
from the Federals (Azuela). The book is more of a character study than anything else, but even then we still dont really know these men intimately. We are given
only the most superficial explanations for why they do what they do: we know that Maciass home was burned, and that he was separated from his wife and child, but
we learn very little else of importance. We dont know much about how he thinks, what his philosophy is, what his hopes and dreams are-except for the obvious one that
they will succeed in overthrowing the government. But people join revolutionary movements for a great many reasons that dont seem to be connected directly to the official "cause"; we could
have used some insight into Macias. Structurally, the book has a sense of narrowing, of closing in. As the struggle goes on, new characters join the band, especially a woman
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