Week 2: Cartucho Reading Cartucho this week was an interesting experience given the actual structure of the book, especially how parts were divided into 1-2 page stories. Each “story” seemed almost like an excerpt of something bigger as they…
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Week 2: Cartucho Reading Cartucho this week was an interesting experience given the actual structure of the book, especially how parts were divided into 1-2 page stories. Each “story” seemed almost like an excerpt of something bigger as they…
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This week’s reading was Cartucho by Nellie Campobello. While I found this book interesting to read due to the style of its writing, I have to admit I was a bit lost at times and had to review a lot to gain a better understanding of the stories being told. This was in part due […]
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week3. cartucho – Cartucho was an interesting book to read. It felt very much like a diary of stories captured by the lens of childhood. The storytelling was raw, unabating, and felt somewhat unvarnished in a very brash, poetic manner. The loose, unknowing endings and the vague misplacement in time felt purposeful, and in that […]
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I read a small portion of this novel when I took SPAN 280; I enjoyed it then and I enjoyed it even more after having read the entire work, after thoroughly immersing myself in the universe of the young narrator. There is something incredibly satisfying about reading a book comprised entirely of vignettes—it’s easier to […]
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Speaking from the bottom of my heart, I feel that Nellie Campobello’s Cartucho should have been labelled with an 18+ rating due to its extremely graphic and gruesome depiction of events that occurred in Parral during wartime, as seen through the eyes of a firsthand witness. I appreciated the fragmented style of writing, as the […]
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Hello blog readers, For this week, I chose to read Cartucho by Nellie Campobello. This novel was quite interesting as it was composed of a bunch of small stories. Written through the perspective of a child, the young girl’…
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Hello blog readers, For this week, I chose to read Cartucho by Nellie Campobello. This novel was quite interesting as it was composed of a bunch of small stories. Written through the perspective of a child, the young girl’…
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Campobello tells stories of the revolution from a child’s perspective. In this way, Campobello can capture the memories for what they are, not judged or changed by maturity or politics. I enjoyed reading this book because I could find overarching…
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Campobello tells stories of the revolution from a child’s perspective. In this way, Campobello can capture the memories for what they are, not judged or changed by maturity or politics. I enjoyed reading this book because I could find overarching…
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