How I Started to Write-Fuentes

EDIT: I realized that I did the wrong thing for this assignment. Therefore, I have rewritten it.

Audience

Fuentes is writing for a well-read audience. He uses many references (direct and indirect) and quotes from literary novels such as The Count of Monte Cristo, Don Quixote, words from Dostoevsky (that one Russian dude whose name I cannot spell), etc. He also uses complex language and sentences that perhaps an ordinary, moderately literate audience could not comprehend.

He writes to an American (or non-Latin American) audience as well. There are cultural references (like the grammar list) that Latin Americans would presumably know and would not find thought provoking or intriguing. He also has to list old presidents and poets and things like that, which a non-Latin American audience would not know or find immediately obvious. It is apparent that he is speaking from a Latin American standpoint and forgets (or does not think necessary) to explain things that might not be understood by us. For example, he refers to the 'Eagle and the Serpent'. To some people, this would mean nothing, though they could presumably guess he meant Mexico by the context. (It really refers to the flag of Mexico, which has an eagle holding a snake in its claws [over a cactus?] because of an old Aztec legend. It's kind of like saying the Stars and Stripes).

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