Week 3: "Cartucho" (Campobello)
Hello everyone! I hope everyone had a good weekend and enjoyed reading the books for this week. I read Cartucho this week because the description given said that it was stories from the Mexican Revolution but from the perspective of a woman. This is what drew me in to choosing this book in the first place, and overall I found it a really fascinating read. I found that the collection of short stories really kept me on my toes while reading, as sometimes the stories would connect with each other linearly and sometimes the timelines would be jumbled. At the beginning I thought that Campobello was just starting off with a small story about each individual character in the book in the section titled “Men of the North”. As I read on I discovered that the rest of the book would be filled with these short snippets of memories and stories from the men at war. I think hearing these very violent and graphic stories from the perspective of a child was kind of mind boggling to me....