{"id":337,"date":"2010-01-31T16:27:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T00:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8482742461732356853.post-8890640641099409427"},"modified":"2010-01-31T16:28:39","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T00:28:39","slug":"carpentier-post-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span365\/2010\/01\/31\/carpentier-post-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Carpentier: Post 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment-->  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" >The book culminates in a very powerful ending, and as I did kind of expect the book ends with \u2018lo real maravillosos.\u201d<span >  <\/span>In the book, Ti Noel watches as the power gets transferred from white, slave owners, to Henri Christophe, to a new mulatto ruling class. <span > <\/span>But consistently those in power exploit and dominate those below them, the blacks, no matter if those ruling are white or black themselves.<span >  <\/span>Carpentier writes moving descriptions of Ti Noel experiencing abuse from his own race.<span >  <\/span>One example Carpentier writes,<span >  <\/span>\u201chab\u00eda una infinita miseria en lo de verse apeleado<span >  <\/span>por un negro, tan negro como uno, tan befuldo<span >  <\/span>y pelicrespo, tan nariz\u00f1ato com uno; tan igual\u2026\u201d (p. 103).<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" >During these transitions much time has passed and Ti Noel has grown old.<span >  <\/span>I think the end represents his reflections of what he has seen.<span >  <\/span>Ti Noel begins to transform himself into many different things: tree, bird, donkey, bee, worm.<span >  <\/span>And as I said before this part is an explicit example of \u201clo real maravilloso.\u201d<span >  <\/span>Ti Noel then transform into a goose, but is shut out of the clan.<span >  <\/span>He then realizes that history is a repetitions of oppression and that society has to continually fight to make the future better.<span >  <\/span>He says, \u201ccomprend\u00eda, ahora que el hombre nunca sabe para qui\u00e9n padece y espera. Padece y espera y trabja para gentes que nunca conocer\u00e1, y que a su vez padecer\u00e1n y esperar\u00e1n y trabajar\u00e1n para otors que tampoco se\u00e1n felices\u2026\u201d ( 152-153).<span >  <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span >            <\/span>In which case, Ti Noel, declares another war against the empowered, and then dies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span >            <\/span>I enjoyed reading the book a lot especially the more I read because I became less confused.<span >  <\/span>I especially liked Carpentiers ideas of \u201clo real maravilloso,\u201d that reality is \u201clo maravilloso\u201d not that the \u201clo maravilloso\u201d exist outside of reality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" >I guess one question I had, is who exactly is Ti Noel.<span >   <\/span>I think he was described when he was introduced but I must have missed it.<span >  <\/span>Was he previously a slave?<\/p>\n<p>  <!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/8482742461732356853-8890640641099409427?l=kylabl.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>  The book culminates in a very powerful ending, and as I did kind of expect the book ends with \u2018lo real maravillosos.\u201d  In the book, Ti Noel watches as the power gets transferred from white, slave owners, to Henri Christophe, to a new mulatto ruli&#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-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","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=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1498,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/1498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}