Similarities/Differences

These two instances are similar. Can they be compared exactly? No.

Similarities:
One group (Che, USA) is helping another group (Revolutionary guerrillas, Pakistanis) rid their country of a different group (Cuban government, Al Qaeda/Taliban)

Differences:
Che was getting rid of the government in power.
The USA is helping quell sectarian violence and small group nuisances while helping to keep the government in place.

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Page 1. “This is not a story of heroic feats, or merely the narrative of a cynic’ at least I do not mean it to be. It is a glimpse of two lives running parallel for a time, with similar hopes and convergent dreams.” Ernesto’s voice in this excerpt shows an intelligent man. This sets up the book for an educated voice.

Page 40. “My tired eyes refused to sleep and in them a pair of green spots swirled, representing the world I had left for dead behind me and mocking the so-called liberation I sought. They harnessed their image to my extraordinary flight across the lands and seas of the world.” Ernesto writes in an airy, abstract, and metaphoric style. He is artistic in his writing and uses metaphors in place of concrete, tangible examples from time to time.