Los Vendidos By Luis Valdez: Summary
Tayler Monroy
Judith Watry
WRT102
April 19th, 2014
World renowned author and playwright, Luis Valdez, carries a rich Mexican-American historical background that gives him the ability to integrate his beautiful culture in his writings. In 1940, Luis Valdez was born into a family of migrant workers along with his nine brothers and sisters. According to the Encyclopedia of World Biography in an excerpt on Luis Valdez, he began picking crops at the age of six and was forced to travel around California’s San Fernando Valley, following the ripening of different crops. Growing up in a typical Mexican stereotype household, a low-class yet hard working family, Luis Valdez was able to obtain valuable and detailed experiences that he would later use in his writings such as “Los Vendidos.” Luis Valdez’s story, “Los Vendidos,” is a satirical Latino stereotype play where the author describes a day in the life of what seems to be a hardworking Latino man. The play …show more content…
(Clarke A-45) By knowing prior information about the author’s life, it is easy for their readers to understand the themes, characters, and settings presented in the reading. After researching Luis Valdez’s background, accomplishments and Latino civil rights movements, it became clear as to why he wrote “Los Vendidos.” Although, it is obvious that his story was written with obvious satire, I believe this idea was made to be purposely noticed. With the Delano Grape Strike incident and people’s negative thoughts about Latino literature, I believe Luis Valdez used the idea of satire in his writing to express his feelings on how the American government needed to become aware of Latino’s needs and be supportive of them. Being a Latino writer and community member himself, he was able to see and witness first-hand the pessimistic and downgrading things that the government pushed on the Latino
Judith Watry
WRT102
April 19th, 2014
World renowned author and playwright, Luis Valdez, carries a rich Mexican-American historical background that gives him the ability to integrate his beautiful culture in his writings. In 1940, Luis Valdez was born into a family of migrant workers along with his nine brothers and sisters. According to the Encyclopedia of World Biography in an excerpt on Luis Valdez, he began picking crops at the age of six and was forced to travel around California’s San Fernando Valley, following the ripening of different crops. Growing up in a typical Mexican stereotype household, a low-class yet hard working family, Luis Valdez was able to obtain valuable and detailed experiences that he would later use in his writings such as “Los Vendidos.” Luis Valdez’s story, “Los Vendidos,” is a satirical Latino stereotype play where the author describes a day in the life of what seems to be a hardworking Latino man. The play …show more content…
(Clarke A-45) By knowing prior information about the author’s life, it is easy for their readers to understand the themes, characters, and settings presented in the reading. After researching Luis Valdez’s background, accomplishments and Latino civil rights movements, it became clear as to why he wrote “Los Vendidos.” Although, it is obvious that his story was written with obvious satire, I believe this idea was made to be purposely noticed. With the Delano Grape Strike incident and people’s negative thoughts about Latino literature, I believe Luis Valdez used the idea of satire in his writing to express his feelings on how the American government needed to become aware of Latino’s needs and be supportive of them. Being a Latino writer and community member himself, he was able to see and witness first-hand the pessimistic and downgrading things that the government pushed on the Latino