(Libra) Parallels Between Lee Harvey Oswald and Manuel Rocha
Parallels Between Lee Harvey Oswald and Manuel Rocha Delillo's Libra focuses on Lee Harvey Oswald, JFK's infamous assassin and an intelligent idiot vying for notoriety. Similarly, the New York Times and other news corporations are concentrating on the life of U.S. Ambassador Manuel Rocha, a Cuban spy since the rule of Fidel Castro and Lee's potential brother in notorious idiocy. Let's explore these bewildering men and draw parallels between their seemingly dissimilar identities. Lee H. Oswald and Manuel Rocha hold many similar personal traits. In Libra , Lee always yearned to become a historically significant and notorious individual who would appear in middle-school textbooks across the world. In jail after being caught by the Dallas PD, Lee constantly contemplates choices to enhance his notoriety for allegedly (not actually according to Delillo) assassinating JFK: Lee believes he could either snitch on Mackey, Raymo, a...