How I started to Write- Carlos Fuentes

I picked audience as one of the five questions that I would answer. I think that Carlos Fuentes was targeting an American audience. He is constantly explaining aspects of Hispanic culture throughout the book. He explains the importance of a lot of famous hispanic poets and writers. Fuentes writes about his experience as a Mexican boy in America, and what happened to him there, and other hispanic countries that he describes so that Americans would understand. If he were writing to a Hispanic audience he wouldn't have to do this, and it probably would have been written in Spanish. I think the whole point of this piece was to appeal to an American audience. The essay refers to a time when Americans were prejudice towards Mexicans because of an oil problem, and how badly he was treated at school becuase of this. This is something that would affect an American audience greatly, and would be something that they could relate to.