Blog number 2

Hello everyone, as I am sure was expected, I'm going to use this blog to talk quickly about my reference to the Jungle Book in class. At first I thought it was a somewhat limited reference, but now that I have looked over it, and watched it another three or four times I see a lot of things that make the analogy as very good to me. First off, it is sung by King Loui, who expresses his desire as an elite to expand to something more than a monkey, or a savage. This matches up with the Latin American elites of the time also wanting to evolve, and become more like Europeans. The fire that King Loui searches for stands for the progress that Latin American elites are also looking for. Finally, King Loui spends some of the song chasing around a lower class monkey and thumping him with a leaf, which in turn stands for the elite's pushing aside of the lower classes to better himself. King Loui expresses his desire to walk among men, to progress, and his willingness to push aside those below him, much like the elites of Latin America were while building their nations in the 1800's.