Week 3 due 7/6 EXTENSION

In 1879 Columbia during a time of war and disease a lowly telegraph worker named Florentino fell in love with a girl named Fermina, Florentino begins to write her love letters and is quite smitten. When the father becomes aware that his daughter has been exchanging letters with a boy from the lower classes he moves her country side. He wants his daughter to marry up and Florentino's position in society is not considered up in her fathers eyes. Florintino and Fermina continue to communicate by telegram despite her father objections. Florentino bids his time and waits for the day that he can see his love, the years begin to roll by until they finally meet again. Fermina drops a bombshell on Florentino by declaring that upon seeing him she has come to realise that she is in fact not in love with at all. Shortly there after Fermina becomes ill and it is feared she had been struck by the cholera epidemic. The father calls in a doctor to care for his daughter and the doctor and Fermina build a relashinship, and are married shortly there after.I think marring a doctor had much more appeal to the family than a telegraph operator. Florentino is heart broken, He tries to leave the area and forget about Fermina, but ends up having sex with a female passenger and feels even more distraught.Seeking to find comfort for his broken heart he turns to the arms of many different women, none of which feel the void left by his love.Upon returning he sees Fermina and her husband and she has now become pregnant.He decides to out wait the husband and will win her back after his death, he begins working for his uncle and falls in love again with a married woman. When her husband finds out about the extra marital affair he becomes enraged and cuts her throat. With the passing of his mother it dons on him that his life mission was to love and be with Fermina. With the passing of Fermina's husband Florentinos plan comes to fruition and he is reunited with his love.
Some elements in this story can easily be related to some of Freire's ideas. The whole idea of class appropriate relationships and obeying the social order are all challenged in this story. I also think the bottom line is that love and affection knows no border, no wealth. or man made title. The other point is that usally in life the most appealing thing are those forbidden.