Luisa Valenzuela's The Censors

After becoming utterly brainwashed Juan ends up taking his own life because he has become too far into the system that he censors his own letter without thinking. In “The Censors” written by Luisa Valenzuela, Juan sends a letter that might cause harm to a friend, so he takes a job and his goal is to move up so he can send it. He goes from moving up in the job to send his own letter to becoming too focused and brainwashed by the government and the job and doing it well to get a raise that he ends up creating his own tragic end because he became to indoctrinated in his work . Juan was an ordinary guy who just wanted to get his letter sent to his friend Mariana but he thought he might have put something in his letter to cause danger for her.