Based on Chris Frazer book, Bandit Nation, Frazer believes that Mexico is a “culture history of banditry in Mexico from the independence to the end of the revolution” (p. 2). Mexico was created and was established based on banditry and by citizens telling and creating stories of banditry, such as Francisco Villa, known as Pancho, or Emiliano Zapata. On page 2 of, Bandit Nation, it states, “This study argues that bandit narratives were integral to broader processes, involving Mexicans and foreigners, to create and define Mexican nation-state” (p.2). In the book Frazer will also explain how citizens of Mexico will elaborate and create stories what it really means to be a Mexican or in Spanish, “Lo mexicanidad” (p.2). Frazer will also analyze…show more content… On the other hand Calderon de la Barco describe the male figure as the dominant and active figure in Mexico, which this was the image of banditry (p. 60). “Mexicans used the figure of the bandit to argue out the rights and duties of citizenships. For this reason, interactions between, masculine and feminine ideals were central to the logic of bandit narratives in Mexico” (p. 60). Many writers would also write novels on how males and females are treated different and how sometimes women would prefer a bandit man then a hard worker male. An example that was provided in the book was the novel of Altamirano. Altamirano wrote the novel called, El Zarco, which the novel consists of two males, the Indian and the bandit. The Indian (Nicolas) falls in love with a Creole women, (Manuela), but the woman does not love him back, she loves the bandit (El Zarco). In the end Manuela discovers the really lifestyle of El Zarco or known as the lifestyle of a bandit member, which later on Manuela relies that she would have had a better lifestyle if she went with