Love in the Time of Cholera is a great story of love, passion and some sadness. It begins with Florentino delivering a message to Fermina and falling hopelessly in love with her. The scene is set in the Caribbean in the late 1800's. The story seems very similar to Shakesperes work of Romeo & Juliet where they are not supposed to be together per her father's wishes. They secretly communicate for a long time and Florentino finally succeeds in winning Fermina over. Sadly her father intervines and removes her from the situation. Florentino and Fermina stay in contact while she is gone and upon her return they have a devestating meeting in the marketplace where Fermina ultimately rejects Florentino, breaking his heart. In the meantime Fermina is sought out by Dr. Urbino who she marries and has a child with. Florentino thinks that he can ease his pain by going out and sleeping with as many women as he can and documents this in his "little black book". Dr. Urbino ends up dying by falling out of a tree and Florentino tries to court Fermina the day of his death, bad timing on his part. Florentino remains persistant and finally wins over Fermina. They end up on his riverboat on a trip and on the last stop they see people that know Fermina and she sort of freaks out as to not call attention to herself and the situation, so Florentino raises the yellow flag on the boat ans away they go.
To wait more than 50 years for love is crazy. This is such a storybook romance. It is heartwarming but is it really practical? Florentino was taunted over this and he tortured himself over this woman. I was happy to see them together in the end though.
In my opinion of seeing this story and comparing it to Freire, I see a couple of things that are simailar. One being the persistance and the other is the unconditional devotion to his love. In Freires situation his love and cause were not a woman but a human crusade for education and both characters show such a stong passion for what they belived in. I think it is both incredible and insane that all of this came into play. Both characters were persistant although they experienced some setbacks whether it be opposition (Freire) to the cause, or plain and simple rejection. Neither man gave up on what he belived in and I think that is so admirable.
It is human nature to love the far fetched romances, or at least a lot of women like it. To wish for the knight in shining armor, or to have some who loves you perfectly in every aspect. I have to ask does it set our expectations for love in an unreal place?
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Ten things I learned from week 2
Ten things I learned from last week from my class mates are:
Nicole- "One of Freire's main goals in life was to educate the illiterate" I think this is so important to help spread knowledge to those who don't know.
Marylou- "Freire believed in "dialogue." " This creates open knowledge and communication which is invaluable.
Daniel- "one of the most important things that Freire did happened in 1961 when he helped over 300 illiterate workers learn to read in just forty-five days." This is incredible! It shows the inspiration and strength of one man can make a huge difference.
Jared- "His ideas challenged the prevalent methods of institutional learning." Sometimes to get the best results you have to look outside the box!
Jason- "he lived much of his life studying the psychology of language." I thought this was unique as you don't hear of a lot of people studying this aspect.
Nelson-"Paulo Freire has spent his life with education as the most valued commodity among students and teachers alike." I liked this line! I think it is so true and simple but it just stood out to me.
Aloma-"“an environment where teachers are the narrators and the students are the recorders”. I liked this analogy. I think that it was great that he compared the banking analogy to the education.
Nikki-"He believed that educators and the educated should be almost interchangeable" This is such a wonderful concept that he had. I almost wish we saw more of this.
Kimmie-"Although Freire was born in Brazil to a middle class family, his inspirations of recognizing the poor could be empowered to live creatively," I think this shows us that anyone can come from anywhere or any class of social status and still greatly amount to something.
Tarissa-"influential theorist of critical pedagogy, which can be described as the practice of helping students to achieve critical consciousness." I had forgotten about the critical conciousness piece and I think that is very important as well!
Nicole- "One of Freire's main goals in life was to educate the illiterate" I think this is so important to help spread knowledge to those who don't know.
Marylou- "Freire believed in "dialogue." " This creates open knowledge and communication which is invaluable.
Daniel- "one of the most important things that Freire did happened in 1961 when he helped over 300 illiterate workers learn to read in just forty-five days." This is incredible! It shows the inspiration and strength of one man can make a huge difference.
Jared- "His ideas challenged the prevalent methods of institutional learning." Sometimes to get the best results you have to look outside the box!
Jason- "he lived much of his life studying the psychology of language." I thought this was unique as you don't hear of a lot of people studying this aspect.
Nelson-"Paulo Freire has spent his life with education as the most valued commodity among students and teachers alike." I liked this line! I think it is so true and simple but it just stood out to me.
Aloma-"“an environment where teachers are the narrators and the students are the recorders”. I liked this analogy. I think that it was great that he compared the banking analogy to the education.
Nikki-"He believed that educators and the educated should be almost interchangeable" This is such a wonderful concept that he had. I almost wish we saw more of this.
Kimmie-"Although Freire was born in Brazil to a middle class family, his inspirations of recognizing the poor could be empowered to live creatively," I think this shows us that anyone can come from anywhere or any class of social status and still greatly amount to something.
Tarissa-"influential theorist of critical pedagogy, which can be described as the practice of helping students to achieve critical consciousness." I had forgotten about the critical conciousness piece and I think that is very important as well!
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