In five pages father and son issues are examined within the context of 'A Photograph of My Father on His Twenty Second Year' and 'My Father is a Simple Man.' Two sources are cited in the bibliography.
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for its independence. Most of the novels and poems that would come from the Boom era would directly address national issues, and would urge social changes. One thing that the
boom writers did was to effect a change of perspective on the Latin American reality, from a type of regional writing and a perception that what was written was surrealistic
to a type of universality that made the Spanish plight the plight of every civilized nation. The issues of fathers and sons not only echoed the changes which were taking
place within the long held perspectives and values of the community, but in a larger sense was the same type of struggling relationship between those in power and the people
of Latin America. One very blatant way in which the poems of Salinas and Carver depict this struggle between perspective (like a
father and son) is in the very nature of the literature being produced at the time. Interestingly enough, the forms and the narratives were experimented with. The formal languages that
had been used in the past underwent a renaissance. Written in a more rustic form, experimenting with chronologies was just a way of Carver and Salinas attempting to find a
unique voice for their character, who is at once symbolic of the old Latin America and also indicative of what the new emerging countries might become. In the first
few lines of Salinas poem, My Father is a Simple Man, the son seems frustrated that he has to slow down to match his fathers pace as they walk into
town for a newspaper and some fruit. "I walk to town with my father/to buy a newspaper. He walks slower than I do so I must slow up"(Salinas,