Essential Questions

Che wanted to have a positive impact on the world around his by improving the lives of others. At first, he was young and naive and believed that he would be able to achieve this goal by becoming a doctor. During his travels chronicled in The Motorcycle Diaries he realized that the world's problems were much to deeply rooted to be effected by the work of a single doctor. As a doctor, he could only help individuals, but as a revolutionary, he could help the entire working class. I believe this logic is what led him to abandon his medical career in favor of a more drastic movement. While I believe his intentions were always good, his means to achieve his goals were a bit radical. He apparently subscribed to a Machiavellian principle of the ends justifying the means as his guerrilla methods often resorted to violence.