`` The Little School `` By Alicia Partnoy - 1703 Words

In 1946, Juan Peron became President of Argentina with support from the working class. He bettered the lives of Argentinians such as improving the public health system, increasing working wages, as well as granting the power for women to vote (Partnoy 11). During this time, Alicia Partnoy, the author of The Little School, was involved in a political youth group who tried to fulfill the needs of Argentinians. However in 1975, Peron died and his third wife, Isabel Peron, took over as president and did not represent the needs of the working class. Instead, the power was left to the military who attacked, kidnapped, and killed political youth groups or any political activists that â€Å"threatened the country’s security† (Partnoy 11). The†¦show more content†¦During Isabel’s presidency political activists were forcibly taken to, beaten, and tortured in concentration camps. These real life experiences are difficult to share, thus Partnoy skims over certain de tails in the stories and may not be completely accurate accounts of what occurred. In the first story of Partnoy’s book, â€Å"The One-Flower Slippers†, she describes how she was captured by the military officials and sent to the secret detention center. Throughout her story, Partnoy uses the pronouns ‘she’ and ‘her’ instead of ‘I’. â€Å"When the soldiers grabbed her, forcing her into a truck†¦afterward she looked up: the sky was so blue that it hurt†¦she does not remember exactly the day it all happened†¦Ã¢â‚¬  (Partnoy 25-26). This indicates that the story was written in a third-person point of view, which means the reader is not told the upfront details about the kidnapping but imaginary aspects bridge the moments together like a summary rather than a minute-for-minute transcription. These experiences from the secret detention centers were harsh, gruesome, and heartbreaking; therefore these fictional stories a llow the reader to digest and conceive the violent conditions and hardships that victims endured without knowing all the violent factual details. Hence some stories in the book may have glossed over certain parts, but it displays what happened in a light-hearted and