Research Paper on:
Argentinian Identity and Facundo by Sarmiento

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is mildly entertaining and designed toward getting the reader interested in the positions presented. As in the paper on the Sarmientos Facundo, one would want to perhaps have an introduction  that looks something like this: Argentina, once considered the Belle of South America, like most countries has had her share of growing  pains. Domingo Sarmiento, one of Argentinas past presidents, wrote on the identity of Argentina in his book, Facundo. In this novel, he depicts Argentina as having two distinct identities: the  city life and the country lifestyle. In addition to this, he seems to take the opportunity, as many authors have done in the past, to expose the weaknesses of the  political workings at the time in his country. In fact, Facundo was written while Sarmiento was in exile, and living in Chile. Because of his views on the Rosa  dictatorship, he had, had to leave on peril of his life. However, it can be said that he did not cease to critique and analyze the shortcomings of the dictatorship  going on in Argentina at the time. As such, then, his novel serves as a fairly apt study and historical document on the rise and fall of the Rosa dictatorship  and how various segments of the population reacted toward him and the dictatorship. In brief, the man who seems to have been a constant thorn in Sarmientos side was Juan  Manuel Rosas. Rosas basically came to power because he had money to buy the best mercenary support from within his own country. Gauchos helped him rise to his power, it  must be said, without any popular support. Most of the country at this time was very rural and as such, communication was poor. In fact, outside of the main city