The Motorcycle Diaries Lesson Plan

Does Guevara seem aware or not of his own biases and privilege? Give specific examples to defend your answer.

Guevara does seem to give an indication that he is aware of his own class privilege; for example, he refers in “La Giaconda’s Smile” in the previous day, he says this of himself and Alberto: “To a certain extent we had been knights of the road; we belonged to that long-standing “wandering aristocracy” and had calling cards with our impeccable and impressive titles.” He does seem to be aware that this gives them certain advantages. However, he has moments of seeming quite unaware of his own biases, for example in the way he talked about the black man who they deemed a...