El Salvador's Revulsion
El Salvador’s Revulsion During the time period of 1980-1992 El Salvador was going through their civil war which lasted roughly about 12 years. The conflict was between two groups from El Salvador which were the military who were led by the government from EL Salvador and the other group was known as FMLN which meant Farabundo Marti National Liberation which was formed by five guerilla groups. The author Horacio Castellanos Moya wrote a story “Revulsion: Thomas Bernhard in San Salvador” which was about himself the author having a conversation with childhood friend Edgardo Vega who came to visit since he was living in Canada now. The author used two characters to narrate the story which were Edgardo Vega and himself Horacio Castellanos Moya.
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Due to the civil war Vega left because there was so much killing happening and then groups started to form and then it was just causing more and more of a disaster than it was already was. I think this is significant because it shows people how the Salvadoran Civil War has impacted the people during the time of the war and after and how it has inspired some people to even write books about such as “Revulsion: Thomas Bernhard in San Salvador” by Horacio Castellanos Moya. The civil war also influenced the make of this story because they relate to the civil war due to how Vega had to flee the country and moved to Canada. As Vega says in the story about how he only came back to his country El Salvador was because his mother had passed away “I came because my mother died, Moya, the death of my mother is the only reason I felt obliged to returned…” (Moya, 7) Vega didn’t ever want to come back to El Salvador ever he fled the country because of the Civil War that had happen but the only thought he would get was that if his mother were to die soon then that is when he would have to come back into the country. Not only has the Civil War has affected the story this but as well as in people getting jobs where they see many people during their work but before they got this job they were involved a lot during the Civil War by either killing people or doing other
Due to the civil war Vega left because there was so much killing happening and then groups started to form and then it was just causing more and more of a disaster than it was already was. I think this is significant because it shows people how the Salvadoran Civil War has impacted the people during the time of the war and after and how it has inspired some people to even write books about such as “Revulsion: Thomas Bernhard in San Salvador” by Horacio Castellanos Moya. The civil war also influenced the make of this story because they relate to the civil war due to how Vega had to flee the country and moved to Canada. As Vega says in the story about how he only came back to his country El Salvador was because his mother had passed away “I came because my mother died, Moya, the death of my mother is the only reason I felt obliged to returned…” (Moya, 7) Vega didn’t ever want to come back to El Salvador ever he fled the country because of the Civil War that had happen but the only thought he would get was that if his mother were to die soon then that is when he would have to come back into the country. Not only has the Civil War has affected the story this but as well as in people getting jobs where they see many people during their work but before they got this job they were involved a lot during the Civil War by either killing people or doing other