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A 5 page paper on this novel about the Mexican Revolution, by Mariano Azuela. The paper concludes that Azuela feels there is no sense to the cyclical rise and fall of leaders and movements, alliances and feuds, and that war is a waste of precious human life. Bibliography included.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_Unddog.doc
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enlistment. This paper analyzes Azuelas anti-war stance in the novel, and traces his movement from idealist to cynic through the personification of his characters. The Underdogs depicts the beginnings
of the popular revolt against the "Federals", the government of Quasi-dictator Porfirio Diaz and his weak successor Francisco Madero. For many years prior to the outbreak of the revolution, the
poor people in rural areas had been promised agrarian reform, and they assumed that with the ouster of Diaz they would get it. However, this did not happen, and a
revolution ensued, which took up roughly the entire second decade of the twentieth century. Madero, whom Azuela supported originally, was assassinated by a man who had once been Maderos own
general; his government fell to a succession of faction leaders, none of whom could hold together a country so deeply divided ethnically, politically, economically, and philosophically. Counter-revolutions continued to rage
on. Azuela swung his own support to the party of Pancho Villa, who was perhaps the most flamboyant of the faction leaders, and it was Villas army that Azuela joined
as a field doctor in 1914. Known as the Division of the North, Villas band was at first allied with that of another revolutionary, Venustiano Carranza, but the two leaders
soon had a falling-out and Villa fled in December 1914 to the northern mountains with another rebel leader, Emiliano Zapata, an enormously powerful leader of a peasant movement in the
south. While Panchos revolutionaries were primarily interested in gaining political power, Zapatas supporters, the Zapatistas, sought social reform, particularly land and civil rights for the peasants. Their very different viewpoints
notwithstanding, joining forces with Zapata gave Villa a significant base of support in the south of Mexico. With Zapatas death in 1916, Villa became the head of the agrarian reform
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