This novel is filled with money, crime, sex, drugs, alcohol; in one word: chaos! After learning that this story was based on a true story, it gave me even more of a sense of the insanity of the world.<\/p>\n
Anyway, I wanted to share something about the theme that the whole story revolves around: MONEY!<\/p>\n
The story begins with a tense bank robbery operation and police shootout resulting in casualties.<\/p>\n
They hadn\u2019t counted it but the canvas bag stuffed with cash was so heavy it could have been filled with stones. Lumps of cement, concealing the fine notes, all in usable cur- rency, packed into a canvas bag tied with a naval knot.<\/p>\n
\u2018We were in it up to our necks,\u2019 said Dorda.\uff08p.29\uff09<\/p>\n
From this moment on it became clear to them that they would pay a huge price for this looted money.<\/p>\n
Another scene that struck me was the money burning scene near the end.<\/p>\n
They began tossing burning 1,000-peso bills out of the window. From the kitchen skylight they succeeded in floating the burning money down towards the corner. The bills looked like butterflies of light, flaming notes.A buzz of indignation rippled through the crowd.<\/p>\n
‘They’re burning it.’<\/p>\n
‘They’re burning the money.’ (p. 157)<\/p>\n
Wow~ If I were a pedestrian on the side of the road, how shocked I would be to see this scene!\u00a0No doubt, I would think they are crazy. Isn’t money meant to be spent? Why burn it? What a waste! However, if I again take the protagonist’s point of view, they are already facing the dead end of their lives, and the meaning and value of money to them at this time should be very different from what ordinary people sees. Money\u00a0sweeping through the fire and scattering in the air also symbolize the liberation of Dorda and Brignone’s relationship. Well~then…what is the value of money?<\/p>\n
Question for Discussion<\/strong>:<\/p>\n “The idea got out that money is innocent, even when acquired as a consequence of death and crime. <\/span> It couldn\u2019t be considered culpable, but rather it should be viewed as neutral, as a symbol that comes in useful depending on how one wants to use it.\u201d \uff08p. 158\uff09<\/span><\/p>\n Money isn’t just at the center of this novel, it’s a necessity for us to survive in the society. Often, money is associated with more negative terms. So what does money mean to you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This novel is filled with money, crime, sex, drugs, alcohol; in one word: chaos! After learning that this story was based on a true story, it gave me even more of a sense of the insanity of the world. Anyway, I wanted to share something about the theme that the whole story revolves around: MONEY! […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96386,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[57,56,54,58,55],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-piglia","tag-corruption","tag-homosexual","tag-lure","tag-money","tag-obsession"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ccrmst202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ccrmst202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ccrmst202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ccrmst202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96386"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ccrmst202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ccrmst202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ccrmst202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ccrmst202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ccrmst202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ccrmst202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}