Both Uses of
Che Guevara
in
Looking for Alaska
- I picked up a biography of Argentinian revolutionary Che Guevara—whose face adorned a poster on the wall—that Lara's roommate had on her bookshelf, then I lay down next to Lara on the bottom bunk.†
p. 128.3 *
- Captured by the Bolivian army, Guevara said, "Shoot, coward.†
p. 128.5
Definitions:
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(1)
(Che Guevara) Argentine Marxist revolutionary leader who was Fidel Castro's chief lieutenant in the Cuban revolution; active in other Latin American countries; executed by the Bolivian army; icon of radical leftist movements (1928-1967)
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much less commonly, Guevara may refer to other people with that name.