vargas essay

Mario Vargas Llosa’s motivation to inform and educate today’s youth and society about the Latin American literary makes him worthy to put him in the Database for Cultural Literacy. When considering candidates for the Database, the people who are chosen should be men and women whom students can learn and or look up to. They should be men and women who inspire them. Students should have the opportunity to learn from the life experiences of specific individuals who left the world with something to remember them by. Mario Vargas Llosa is one of those individuals that deserves a spot in the Database for Cultural Literacy. Vargas is a very well-known Latin novelist since the early 1960’s. His novels are known to be modern day saga of Peruvian and Latin American society (chang). He is very popular all over the world but mainly in Latin America. Not only is Vargas famous for his literacy but also for being such an inspired politician. Mario Vargas Llosa’s history changing accomplishments, inspired writings and career as a politician are reasons why he should be consider a figure in our Database for Cultural Literacy. Throughout Varga’s life he faced many struggles that make him who he is today. Growing up his family was very poor. They lived in the jungle of Peru, a town called Piura. During the 1960’s people of that region were not treated equally by the government. They were known as the lower class. Llosa didn’t believed in inequality and as a child he always said to his parents that before he passed away he wanted to change the world somehow and make sure that everyone was treated equally (Davis). Llosa started from the bottom by working for a newspaper in his town. He wrote many successful articles and realized that he really enjoyed writing. These articles led him to many accomplishments. He earned a trip to Spain to study abroad in the University of Madrid and worked his way up to working for a radio-television network. He then realized that he loved speaking