The Motorcycle Diaries

This story is near to my heart. I have always felt a close kinship to "Che" and the changes that he feels within himself throughout this South American journey. My experience is a little reversed. I grew up on the poor side here in the United States. My mother and father were always scrapping to make money in a world were the poor and less educated have been left behind and in some instances forgotten about. I feel a connection with "Che" and the way he feels for the poor. I feel like a country where over half of our citizens make less than $26,000 and cannot file taxes may be on collision course with collapse. The gap between the rich and the poor widens and I felt like the scene where Che swims across the Amazon is a symbolic gesture that many of us today can learn from. We need to reach across class and party lines to help those who need it most.