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This 5 page paper discusses the novel by Jose Maria Arguedas. An analysis of themes, characters and social injustices are exampled and quoted. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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more than just that. This book is a portrait of a boy who finds himself trapped between two cultures, never quite fitting in, striving to determine who he is and
what life holds for him. This theme of alienation is the universal glue to which everyone can relate and so, the setting
becomes secondary to the fact that the boy is confused about who he is and what he is to believe. In the beginning few chapters he is blissfully ignorant of
his ethnicity. He grows up among the Peruvian Indians; lives like them, speaks like them, and adopts their social mores. Here he is introduced to the highly symbolic stories of
these people and the reader is given an insight into the fierce pride and stoic acceptance of natures whims that have so shaped the landscape and people in Peru.
However, in the first half of the book he suddenly realizes a sort of dissociation with the Peruvians. He notices that he is different.
Interestingly enough, it seems that until he notices that he is different no one else tends to notice that much. But, when it begins to matter to him, it matters
to them. This begins the series of compounding events which propel him toward the tragic end. Symbolically, the changes that take place in
the boys life are also representative of the changes which were coming to the Peruvian Indians via the industrial monster called Progress. As modernization is introduced, so too is the
boy further separated from his Peruvian beginnings. This novel is also about the costs of a too rapid modernization for a people not quite ready to embrace the changes and
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