Summary Of Let The Water Hold Me Down By Michael Spurgeon
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When we look at the world, we unknowingly judge things through ways that we have learned through the society that we live in or our morals that have been governed on us since we were able comprehend. We don't usually think of names for the way we analyze our world but they are there from the way we look at right and wrong to our relationships with other people. The way we treat people as well is governed by out past or our present. When we look at the novel Let the Water Hold Me Down by Michael Spurgeon with two specific ways of viewing we are able to analyze and critic the work. The two viewpoints, or also known as “lenses”, that I will use to analyze this novel are a psychoanalytical lens and a Marxist lens. When it comes to a psychoanalytic…show more content… If we switch out the standard lens for a wide angle lens, one is able to capture the thing they were looking at before as well as getting more of the surrounding that they weren't able to get before. This is what happens when we add Marxist critical theory. We don't want to get rid of the psychoanalytical lens, we want to add on to it. Within this book we are able to identify from the interactions of characters the marxist ideology of classism. The novel Let the Water Hold Me Down is a work of fiction, there are historical events that happen in the book but it does not center on those historical events. The novel is set in Mexico in the State of Chiapas, close to the Guatemalan border. Within this state is a major site of Mayan ruins, which in the past were concurred by the Chiapas and Aztec, which explains the large indigenous population and the reason why this state is known to have one of the most diverse populous in Mexico, which make up a quarter of the state. Cesar's family is descendant from Spaniards, whom were one of the conquers of this country, his family owns a large estate known as Calvario, a coffee plantation which was in the family for generations, however it still technically can be seen as stolen land. When Hank is with Cesar he sees how he treats the farmhands first hand, due to Hank being