8/27 Carlos Fuentes

In the artcile, "How i Started to Write," by Carlos Fuentes has a purpose that is very unique in my opinion. As I was reading this article, I noticed that he was a Scorpio, a controlling, yet intense fire sign if the zodiac. The problem with his father was that he wanted his son to be born in Mexico, since he was involved with the Mexican legation, but instead his son was born in Panama City, not under the Eagle and the Serpent. This significane to the story is very relevant if you look back at mexican history when natives were looking for a place to call their own, they found a Eagle holding a serpent, which is what we see on the Mexican flag today. Later on in the story when Carlos Fuentes says that his father's high standard and imagination of Mexico was not real, the little lightbulb went on in my head once again. I realized that the point he was trying to get across was that was that what we hold dear in our imaginations becomes so great in our minds, that when we realize that it is not a reality, our entire world could come crashing down. So, ths can relate to Gatsby, in the sense that he held the image of Diasy in his mind for so long, and lived in the past, just like Fuentes' father's view of Mexico. But, then I read further, and I saw that Fuentes realized that his father's country was real, so maybe his father was making it so great to make his son think that he is part of somethig greater, when in reality, it did the exact opposite. This is all due to a language that is not spoken, btu exists among all people no matter what race. Fuentes ended up realizing that he could dream his own dreams and that human beings share a tradition. I really like the quote,"There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing."