{"id":23,"date":"2024-03-20T00:28:33","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T07:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/renkoyamarmst202\/?p=23"},"modified":"2024-03-20T00:31:45","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T07:31:45","slug":"reflecting-on-money-to-burn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/renkoyamarmst202\/2024\/03\/20\/reflecting-on-money-to-burn\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflecting on &#8220;Money to Burn&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hello everyone, I hope you all are doing well. I really enjoyed this week\u2019s reading: \u201cMoney to Burn\u201d by Ricardo Pigilia. To be entirely honest, it probably was because the genre of the book was more exciting than other books, especially considering that the book is based on a true crime that happened in Argentina. There was constantly a lot happening and the book was thoroughly engaging. Piglia is very committed to accurately presenting the facts of a crime and it is shown in a lot of references he makes to sources derived from his own research. However, the blending of facts with fictional elements is definitely what adds depth to the novel. I think the addition of background stories(which are fictional) is crucial for character development in the novel. Through the detailed character development, Piglia adds personalities, backgrounds, and motivations to these real-life figures, making them more than just participants in crime. These fictional elements not only make the characters more human but also add complexity to the story and prevent the book from being just accounts of a crime. These background stories show struggles such as discrimination or lost love that are behind criminal actions. The fictional elements not only make the characters more human but also add complexity to the story and prevent the book from being just accounts of a crime. While these background stories are fictional, they feel real in the sense that they add emotional weight to the character\u2019s actions and decisions. This mixture of truth and fiction reminded me of the movie \u201cHouse of Gucci\u201d that I recently watched. The movie is based on the true murder of Maurizio Gucci by his wife but I believe much of the dialogues and little stories within the movie are entirely fictional. I think it is super creative to produce something by blending the elements of truth and fiction, and it is a different kind of complexity and creativity that cannot be recreated by an entirely fictional thing. I believe the rigorous research Piglia went through and the creative process of adding stories\/personalities was a lot harder than embellishing some stories about the Gucci family.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Discussion Question: did those background stories make it easier for you to empathize with the characters?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone, I hope you all are doing well. I really enjoyed this week\u2019s reading: \u201cMoney to Burn\u201d by Ricardo Pigilia. To be entirely honest, it probably was because the genre of the book was more exciting than other books, especially considering that the book is based on a true crime that happened in Argentina. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100336,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pigilia","category-uncategorized","tag-pigilia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/renkoyamarmst202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/renkoyamarmst202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/renkoyamarmst202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/renkoyamarmst202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100336"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/renkoyamarmst202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/renkoyamarmst202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/renkoyamarmst202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/renkoyamarmst202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/renkoyamarmst202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/renkoyamarmst202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}