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The Labyrinth of Solitude In the book The Labyrinth of Solitude by Octavio Paz depicts Mexican as an identity almost like a tangible object seeking its place in the world. It is an account of Mexican history since the beginning in Spanish conquest to the revolution. He refers to himself as a Mexican which makes his writing more personal where he uses “I” and “ours” in the book. Throughout the book he focuses on a variety of subjects that directly relate to Mexican identity such as the Day of the Dead, “He is even familiar and complacent in his dealings with it. The bloody Christs in our village churches, the macabre humor in some of our newspaper headlines, our wakes, the customs of eating skull shaped cakes and cadies on the Day of the Dead,

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