Book Review of Rebellion in the Backlands by Euclides da Cunha :: essays research papers

Book Review of "Rebellion in the Back vote outs"By Euclides da Cunha     Rebellion in the Backlands is set in the Northeastern backlands of brazil nut. It is basically, a historical narration of a period of time (1896 and 1897) where the disposal of the Republic of Brazil decided to wage war against a phantasmal group of good deal of about 5000. This group of people, lead by a charismatic religious leader named Antonio Conselheiro, did not accept the Brazilian government as their legitimatize government and was therefore deemed a threat to the rest of the country. Some of the members of this lawlessness were in fact very aggressive and uncontrollable. Eventually the Brazilian government led an attack on these people launching a contest that lasted almost a year and took the lives of hundreds of Brazilian army soldiers, and thousands of native Brazilian rebels. The poor, native people of the backlands proved impressive opposition and in fact defeat ed every single force sent against them and even killed the commandant of the first expedition. Although, in the end the governments military did prevail over the hoidenish people, and they were all eventually killed. Still, the interesting thing about his book is that it seems to gift that there is more to the story than just a battle lost.      When I began this assignment, I set out to read each and every pageboy of this book. Unfortunately, it is not an easy book to read and due to time limitations as well as a curiosity to peek ahead to advertize chapters, I was subsequently constrained to skim the entire book. From what I did put together this is a very well written book, incredibly detailed, by soulfulness who is clearly well educated in Latin American memorial as well as military tactics and it seems as though, geology and geography as well. The amount of imagery and detail that was put into the chapter on land alone was enough to fill its own bo ok. an unlooked-for present awaits the traveler all of which confers upon the landscape in a fuse in a distant and amazing blend of color. The physical descriptions of the land were exquisite and vivid, but what unfeignedly interested me was the chapter entitled Man.     Being a psychology major, this was by far my preferred chapter. Here Da Cunha really gets into the meat of the story he is telling about Brazilian history.