Chapters 4 - 6 Summary and Analysis

"Lovesick Pause" begins with Che and Alberto leaving Comeback in Miramar, at his new home. They start in Miramar several days longer than they had intended and spend a lot of time on the beach. Chichina, Alberto's girlfriend, gives Alberto her bracelet for his journey, so that he might remember her.

"Until the Last Tie is Broken" starts as Che and Alberto ride to Necochea to stay with a friend of Alberto's. The friend asks them why they have decided to go on such a long journey and they do not know. Che recalls visiting a friend who had joined the Peronist party in Argentina, which gave him privilege, but others joined the radicals, presumably communists. Che gets sick, which slows them down a day, and the bike continues to be hard to control. They have a crash because...