Carlos Fuentes Response

In Carlos Fuentes’s “How I learned to Write” his purpose to me was to show how language is so important to culture and to show how a culture cannot exist in solitude. In his writing he explores the fact of the importance of language to each country. His father was a devout Mexican and he was forced to learn so much about Mexico even though, to him, Mexico has a very disappointing history full of defeats. But, even though they had a humiliating history it was still important to learn about his heritage.
The other purpose was for him to show us how learning and remembering our culture is important to defining a culture identity. This is so important because that is how we are different from each other and how we define ourselves as people. We also need to share our culture because culture can’t survive alone. We need to have other people to share our culture with and be different from at the same time.