{"id":167,"date":"2010-01-17T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T19:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8482742461732356853.post-525103457368241005"},"modified":"2010-01-17T11:16:19","modified_gmt":"2010-01-17T19:16:19","slug":"asturias-post-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span365\/2010\/01\/17\/asturias-post-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Asturias: Post 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment-->  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" >The play, \u201cCulcuc\u00e1n serpiente envuelta en plumas\u201d is the third part of the book \u201cLeyendas de Guatamala\u201d and serves as the conclusion to the book.<span >  <\/span>The play in written in the style of ancient Mayan legends, it incorporates elements of magic and myth.<span >  <\/span>The characters in the story are personifications of different elements such as the wind and the sun or personification of nature, like flowers. The characters in the story is what really gives it the sense of being an ancient Mayan legend.<span >  <\/span>And the story serves to explain the universe and the reason why the things on Earth are the way they are, especially why the day changes into night.<span >  <\/span>The story debates if the things we see are real or merely the illusion of being real, and the illusion being controlled by mythical creatures, especially Culculc\u00e1n. I think the story serves as the conclusion of the book because Asturias is debating reality of the present woorld against the Mayan myth and history.<span >  <\/span>In the story you have Guacamayo fighting that the passing of day to night is just an illusion.<span >  <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" >The ending of the play became more confusing to me, it was hard for to understand the role of Ya\u00ed, I think I got the sense that Guacamayo was trying to use Ya\u00ed in order to prove Culcuc\u00e1n wrong but some how Guacamayo was fooled in the end.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" >This ending would consistent with the rest of the book, \u201cLeyendas de Guatamala\u201d because it would support the beliefs of the ancient Mayan legends; that the \u201cGods\u201d are in control and determine what we see.<span >  <\/span>Asturias writes to show that the modern world is based on the past and Mayan beliefs and again the play accomplishes this by explaining what we see in the present using the style of a Mayan legend and their beliefs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span >            <\/span>Overall, I liked the play.<span >  <\/span>Like the other stores in the book it reading the legend felt like it was being told out loud to<span >  <\/span>me.<span >  <\/span>The language was more simple than the others, making it easier to understand.<span >  <\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/8482742461732356853-525103457368241005?l=kylabl.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>  The play, \u201cCulcuc\u00e1n serpiente envuelta en plumas\u201d is the third part of the book \u201cLeyendas de Guatamala\u201d and serves as the conclusion to the book.  The play in written in the style of ancient Mayan legends, it incorporates elements of magic a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1500,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/1500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}