Research Paper Puerto Rico

Juan David Vivas Professor Holt ENC 1102 Honors side of meat Final Research Paper La ficcion y la realidad en Seva Seva Hi account of the first base U. S. usurpation of the island of Puerto anti-racketeering law that took place in whitethorn 1898, is a romance written by Dr. Luis Lopez Nieves that defies the boundaries of truth and legend. This theme was create on December 23, 1983 in the improver of the newspaper Red Clarity. A story that was able to leave a bequest behind. This legacy created an atmosphere of questions and answers among the multitude in the island.The devastation that puertorricans matt-up over the words they were reading were caused by a simple proofreading error, arose much confusion where people were desperate for answers, and the perfection of how Seva was written made it impossible to be questi unrivaledd. Before I continue on inform about this dreadful story, it is important that I enounce several historic facts in order to postulate the autho rs full credentials and obtain a break-dance grasp of the story. Luis Lopez Nieves was born on January 17, 1950 in chapiter, DC, from Puerto Rican pargonnts.As proto(prenominal) as s rase long time old he moved to the capital of Puerto Rico and at xv historic period of age began his studies at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras campus. The most(prenominal) noble-minded university to fill at that time. During his second year he was in Greenwich Village, an artistic and bohemian neighborhood of innovative York (Ciudsv. com/Datos). At twenty years of age he returned to the University of Puerto Rico and in 1973 graduated with a horizontal surface in general studies with concentrations in Comparative literary produceions and Hispanic Studies.Then he moved to the University of New York at Stony Brook, where he began his Masters degree in Hispanic Studies with a grant from the Ford Foundation. In 1980 he received a doctorate in school of thought specializing in Compara tive Literature and sets a actor by being the first student to stomach a novel as a doctoral thesis The Prince Alexander excessive happiness. Lopez Nieves is the author of the novels The calm down of Galileo, published in June 2009 and The heart of Voltaire, published in December 2005 (Ciudsv. om/Datos). This writer is also known for his minute stool as a storyteller with his books of defraud stories entitled The real death of Juan Ponce de Leon, published in April 2000, Writing for Rafa, published in 1987 and Seva. The workweek this story was published, the people of Puerto Rico were shocked to translate that the first U. S. infringement of Puerto Rico did not go through July 25, 1898 by the town of Guanica but that it happened on May 5th on the coast of the village that no longer exists c totallyed Seva (Ciudsv. com/Datos).That day, the 2,000 troops of General Nelson Miles was ambushed by 721 superpatrioticic savaenos that resisted the American attack on the island and in the long run thwarted the troops of General Miles. Actually it was not a historic victory but a big(p) literary epic written by Luis Lopez Nieves (Ciudsv. com/Libros). A clarification that seemed to be absent on the published story of Seva in the newspaper Clarity caused much hostility in Puerto Rico since people were misled to conceptualize the events occurred were straightforward. The reaction was strong but confused. A agonising mixture of joy, anger and pain.Joy because finally the old detest myth was destroyed of the say docility of puertorricans, their supine alleged delivery to the conquerors. At last, after many years of historical ignorance, puertorricans began to learn a few episodes of their true and heroic epic. Anger because such a frightful act as the slaughter of Seva, and the total eradication of the people by the invaders, with good reason (Ciudsv. com/Libros). injure because the people more courageous than ever, heroic even Largons, lay murdered, bur ied and forgotten under the planes, buildings and nuclear missiles of the naval root word at Roosevelt Roads.After the Seva news, reports were confirmed that in Naguabo, Ceiba, Guayanilla, Rio Piedras, San Sebastian and several delegacys were organized within hours. The first commissioning was intended to find Don Ignacio Martinez, the only survivor of the slaughter of Seva My life has changed forever because last January 17 after 14 months of searching disheartened, I finally set up the child-without-ear-left Don Ignacio Martinez. When the Slaughter of Seva was 9 years old (and not 7 as I had estimated) and now has 92, but looks much younger. (Seva, 45) Another committee was organized to dig in the Roosevelt Roads naval base at any cost until they found the remains of Seva, The People Martyr. In accompaniment to the committees, a adult psychologist met with the governor of Puerto Rico, Carlos Romero Barcelo, and demanded an investigation to succumb the whereabouts of Dr. Vi ctor Cabanas. The Governor, spread outn the facts, he was obliged to study the events. This reaction from readers and patriots is admirable, but thither was a chore Seva is a story, the result of a deep dissatisfaction with Luis Lopez Nieves storey of Puerto Rico (Ciudsv. om/Datos). The newspaper Clarity, stunned by the events caused by the story he was obliged to publish an exculpation The text Seva History of the first U. S. invasion of the island of Puerto Rico took place in May 1898, published in the last edition of In Red, is a story. The equivalent has caused shock and alarm in parts of the domain because it suggests a major historical discovery. While nearly read the text as a story, it seems that most of our readers thought it was a sensational historical article, the crop of a thorough investigation and risky.But this is a story and nothing else but a story that became the product of imagination and the combination of literary resources of its author, Luis Lopez Nie ves. The immense controversy that caused Seva took the complete simplicity of just another mainstay in the newspaper to have immediate presidency intervention to find answers. It rose over the on the whole story that threatens to take folkloric proportions. In sectors of intellectual, artistic, and academic independency of the country there was another issue this week. At parties, businesses, libraries and homes continually arose gatherings and discussions on the Slaughter of Seva.Attitudes towards the story set about in the euphoria (Seva is a rallying cry, says Ferdinand Quintana, Guayanilla musician). some(prenominal) crosses appeared in front of the Roosevelt Roads naval base with the inscription Seva Lives (Seviv. com/criticas). The Capitolio News Agency (The white theater of Puerto Rico) assigned the reporter Jennifer Wolfe to travel immediately to Washington with the intention of interviewing Peggy Ann Miles, the granddaughter of General Nelson Miles that received Dr. Victor Cabins with biscuits, tea and very polite words, a mortal that does not exist (Ciudsv. om/Datos). The poet Jose Manuel Torres Santiago confirmed that pastime the clarification of the magazine Clarity to the effect that Seva was a story, many in Guayanilla and San Sebastian protested and refused to believe it was said accordingly that Seva newspaper column globe and lying. Many refused to believe that Seva was a story and chose to stay with the version of Luis Lopez Nieves. A prominent nationalist claims to know a veterinarian who, in turn, had an uncle who spoke of Seva. Its Ceiba, the vet told his uncle. No, he replied, I do not speak of Ceiba but of Seva.This nationalist seemed very concerned and said that Seva is a reality. He resists, moreover, to believe that Don Ignacio Martinez is a fictitious entity created by Luis Lopez Nieves (Seva, p. 58). Fortunately, in the alike way that people were malign or did not understand the satire of Lopez Nieves, there were peop le who understood. A famous guayanillense wrote the following utterance with the real meaning of the story Seva is for me a reality of all Puerto Ricans, regardless of political positions, that could happen or has happened in our town that is still suffering the same symptoms of the past.But as long as men rigid as Seva, Puerto Rico will have a firm hope, of all Puerto Ricans who believe in the value that the country means for everyone. Although they do not merit to have benefits and come to mourn for what they have not earned or deserved. But we are all too Ay Bendito that we forgive him. (January 9, 1984, Jose Eugenio Rivera Castagnet) The elaborate and soundly diminutive of the context in Seva presented the story so well that it was extremely difficult to determine fact from fiction.For the first time an author was able to take a story that was not true but because of historical events, it seemed as if it had happened exactly as stated (Seviv. com/critocas). This work is ex traordinary. This paper published by Luis Lopez Nieves is a hit. It is an invitation to roll into the history of Puerto Rico, for Seva is not far from the truth. Among the readers of Clarity are probably the most sophisticated, better informed and more critical of the island professors and university students, boxes on the left, lawyers, labor leaders, and professionals (Ciudsv. om/Libros). The author treasured to share with the people the truth that good fiction reveals the truth about puertorricans. That is, it looks like people larn an immediate sense of patriotism to see how a town was erased from history. Puerto Ricans know the abuses that the American people rushed against Puerto Rico, the problem is that they forget or are given a blind eye when they give their coupons, housing and entertainment, among other things. They think that to swim against the up-to-date is comprehensive and to swim along is demeaning and affront for the soul and freedom.So they are undecided and have a lifestyle like if nothing is happening roughly them (Ciudsv. com/Datos). We find reality hard to believe and accept. The fiction on the other hand can comfortably be taken as true. How else can one explain that a publicity stunt by the author of Seva The True Story of the American invasion in 1898 has caused such a stir, mostly clarifications and explanations from the realm called the countrys intelligence? Works Cited Lopez Nieves, Luis. Seva Historia de la primera invasion norteamericana de la isla de Puerto Rico ocurrida en mayo de 1898. ra ed. Bogota, Colombia Editorial Norma 2006 Puerto Rico Cementerio de la acrobacia, revista Borinquen Grafico ? Seva Vive? . Site Oficial De Seva Vive. N. p. , n. d. Web. 25 June 2012. Datos Personales Y BiogrA? ficos Luis Lopez Nieves Ciudad Seva. Datos Personales Y BiogrA? ficos. N. p. , n. d. Web. 25 June 2012. . Seva Luis Lopez Nieves. Seva. N. p. , n. d. Web. 25 June 2012. http//ciudadseva. com/libros/seva. htm.