Both Uses of
revolution
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 *revolutionary = related to or causing dramatic change; of a supporter of the change
- South American revolutionaries, it would seem, died with flair.†
p. 128.6revolutionaries = supporters of dramatic change -- sometimes people fighting for overthrow of a government
Definitions:
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(1)
(revolution as in: the computer revolution) dramatic change -- sometimes violent overthrow of a government
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(2)
(revolution as in: revolution around the sun) circular movement -- sometimes referring to exactly one rotation