Post Week 9

After our class discussion about Requiem por un campesino espanol on 3/1, I decided to do some research to find out more about this book. I came across a long article that relates and read the first part of it. This related very well to the exercise we did about the "Romance" in the book that is expressed through the alter boy. The person who wrote the article really took a liking to the prose/poetry that appears throughout the book. I thought this was very interesting because we talked about the importance of this smaller story within the entire book. The person who wrote this article notes that there are twelve of these sections of the romance and all are said by the alter boy except the eighth which Mosen Millan says. In addition to the points we touched on in class, I found this article to contain other important ideas. For instance, this article points out that the romance serves to show that the people have their own way of honoring Paco that is separate from the church. This idea is also evident at the end when there are only three people who show up for his mass, none of which are the campesinos or other people from the town. In addition to this idea, the article also suggests the reason for the people not showing up for the mass. According to the article, the reason is that the town partially blames Mosen Millan for what happened to Paco and thus does not attend his mass. I also found it interesting that the article pointed out that in the Romance, the only other name to appear other that Paco's was Mosen Millan. This also shows blame toward Mosen Millan.

Here is the link in case someone is interested in reading the entire article
http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdf?vid=2&hid=13&sid=29a2bdf7-9b38-4dbe-abce-2301f1d66206%40sessionmgr10