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The Censors By Luis Valenzuela
Luisa Valenzuela’s short story “The Censors” was that 4th story we read in my English honors class. In her story we follow the main protagonist juan’s mission to get his letter pass the censors. censors are the the people who work for the Argentinian government, who are suppose to find the “secrets” that are hiding in the letters coming to or from Argentina. At the start of the story the author wrote “Poor Juan! One day they caught him with his guard down before he could even realize that what he had taken as a stroke of luck was really one of fate’s dirty tricks.” She foreshadows Juan’s fate in a way where the reader’s attention has been caught, and leaves him or her reading more. The author describes juan’s change through periods
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