Paper 2 Activity 6

Guatemala, September 4th, 2011

Mr. Felix Lope de Vega

Madrid, Spain

Mr. Lope de Vega:

Hello, how are you? I want to tell you that I love to read! I think that the most important genres that I like are novels or plays. Sorry I forgot to say who I am. My name is Gustavo Adolfo Hernández Castañeda. I live in Guatemala and I am 18 years old. In my school some teachers recommended me your books as really good. I think in the same way like them. For example I read your book that is called “Fuente Ovejuna” and I think that it is a good book but I dislike the form of acting of “Commentator”. The reasons that I don’t like this character are: his attitude and the advantage that he takes over the people in the town.

The attitude is very important to reflect the way to act of the people and the reasons that I don’t like the attitude of the “Commentator” are because he is angry, sexual, and stupid. He is very angry in all the play because he doesn’t like to wait while other people make things for him. The worst thing that I don’t like is that he always thinks about the sexual thing of the women and that’s a very horrible way to see women. And obviously he is very stupid because he makes a lot of things that put him in bad situations.

The way that he takes advantage of the people is because he is the Commentator of the town and the things that I don’t like are in three specific moments when: he wants to be the most popular person in the town, he is with the judge, and he starts fighting for the love of Pascuala. When he wanted to be the most popular guy in the town, he proposed to the town that he had the most important position and he took advantage of the people of the town. When he went to the judge, he said that he had immunity because of his position. The Commentator fought for the love of Pascuala, and he said that all the women had to pay attention to him because he had a good position in the town.

After I read the book, I thought that you are a very good writer but I really don’t like the way of acting of the Commentator in the play “Fuente Ovejuna”. I think that the attitude is very important to be a good person, especially this character doesn’t act with good heart and he always thinks to make bad things to the people in the town. And he always acts in favor of him because he takes advantages in all the possibilities that he has in all the play. That’s because he thinks that he has a very good position in the town. But remember that I don’t say that you are a bad writer, the only thing is that I don’t like that way of acting of the Commentator in the play “Fuente Ovejuna”.

Sincerely,

Gustavo Hernández