Un hombre muerto a puntapiés, crónica para el mejoramiento del análisis literario.

Abstract

Literary analysis is a fundamental tool to understand and interpret literary texts, focusing on the development of reading comprehension. However, it is common that students, depending on their age, tend to read other types of literature, relegating the works of Ecuadorian authors to the background. In many cases, when they are assigned to read the national narrative, they do so out of obligation without experiencing any real motivation. For this reason, this work was taken as a proposal because everything arises from a journalistic chronicle, showing us two things: how a character, through his obsession with a crime, can reach true conclusions and how the society of that time takes the homosexuality, knowing that this was prohibited, thanks to this curiosity is born to know the behavior of the Ecuadorian population of that time, a relevant aspect to carry out a good analysis and through this the acquire skills to think analytically and reflectively. The objective of this investigation is to compare the thinking of the 20th century with the current one regarding homophobia, through “A man kicked to death”, a chronicle for the improvement of literary analysis and to know the criteria of the students of First Year of Parallel Baccalaureate. “A” of the Juan Montalvo the Manta Fiscomisional Educational Unit. The results revealed that homophobia is not a taboo topic within the students´ family environments, but it continues to be approached with some caution.