After becoming utterly brainwashed Juan ends up taking his own life because he has become too far into the system that he censors his own letter without thinking. In “The Censors” written by Luisa Valenzuela‚ Juan sends a letter that might cause harm to a friend‚ so he takes a job and his goal is to move up so he can send it. He goes from moving up in the job to send his own letter to becoming too focused and brainwashed by the government and the job and doing it well to get a raise that he ends
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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
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The authors of “The Censors”‚ a short story by Luisa Valenzuela‚ and “Cairo: My City‚ Our Revolution”‚ a journal entry by Ahdaf Soueif‚ both reveal the tragedy and suffering they faced with the living conditions in their countries of origin. Valenzuela uses a story to display this. Soueif‚ however‚ specifies her perspective in her writing. As Soueif pinpoints her outlook of the Arab Springs protests that took place in Egypt‚ she discloses the fear as well as patriotism that she experienced in her
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“Cat’s Eyes” by Luisa Valenzuela 1. Fear of Power 2. Reversal gender roles 3. The strength of a woman Thesis/ Analysis: In “Cat’s Eyes”‚ Luisa Valenzuela challenges the roles of both the female and male gender. What is known as the dominant male figure‚ Valenzuela gives to female character in her story‚ this causes what seems to a dysfunction and an uncertain reaction to both the female character as well as the male. It is as though a power has shifted unto the woman using her eyes as the
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The story is an example of situational irony because an event occurs that changes the expectations of the story. For example‚ Juan went from trying to outsmart the government by working for them to becoming a dedicated censor. Juan becomes so obsessed with trying to be a perfect censor that he forgets the true mission of making sure he gets his letter back. To get the letter back Juan does work long and hard but “Soon his work became so absorbing that his noble mission blurred in his mind”. In addition
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Valenzuela’s "The Censors" The author starts out say "Poor Juan!" you know that something bad has happened to the man‚ this attracts your attention and leads you to keep reading. She says that fate caught him with one of its dirty tricks while had his guard down‚ and then proceeds to tell the tale. She vaguely hints of the doom that lies ahead of Juan and you have to know what horror awaits him. It is organized as a story‚ told in chronological order; this is effective in showing you the
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Luis Alfredo Garavito “The beast”. From early 1992 to 1999‚ Colombia experienced a period of terror and anguish. Hundreds of families were victims of disappearances of their sons‚ who was being kidnapped‚ raped‚ tortured and killed by the hands of a heartless unscrupulous man‚ whose name is Luis Alfredo Garavito better known as the Beast. The most famous serial killer in Colombia. Luis Alfredo Garavito Cubillos was born in January 25‚ 1957 in Génova‚ Quindío. He was the oldest brother
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History of valenzuela Valenzuela was named after Pío Valenzuela‚ a doctor and a member of Katipunan. The town preceding Valenzuela that was originally called Polo was formed in 1621 due to religious separation movements from parishes of Meycauayan (Catanghalan). Polo has been occupied twice by foreign armies other than colonial powers Spain and United States: first during the Seven Years’ War by the British and by the Japanese during the Second World War. In 1960‚ President Diosdado Macapagal ordered
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the end because they are too pusillanimous to salvage something that could end their melancholy. The short story The Censors was able to convey the message of a person who was
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a story the ending that it needs in order to be remembered. Irony comes in many forms‚ and some are more surprising than others. In the short stories‚ “The Censors”‚ written by Luisa Valenzuela and “The Gift of the Magi”‚ written by O. Henry ‚ irony is the main literary element and the two stores have similarities and differences. “The Censors” takes place in the country of Argentina‚ where there is a dictatorship. In this dictatorship everybody who sends letters has
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