Columbia & Venezuala

The speech at the end of the book was given by a man whose name is not given. Ernesto describes the man in a third person tense. I think that the man Ernesto was describing was in fact himself. I think that the speech was the defining moment when the innocent and caring Ernesto turned into the powerful revolutionary Che. He spoke of innocent lives lost as a part of the revolution and said that anyone not willing to join them would die. These harsh words would not have come out of Ernesto's mouth, but were the ways of Che.