Week 1 - Statement

I will use this course to look closely to the social situation of the post-revolutionary Mexico, especially in Mexico City and the central estate of Jalisco.

Although the time and place of my story is Mexico after its civil war, the story is in fact about the main character’s internalization of her own reality since the reader will soon discover that she is actually traveling through layers of her own dream. What she finds as she moves around her unconscious is mainly influenced by her mother’s obsession for the privileged situation she lived before her father was exiled and she had to move from Mexico City to Jalisco, where the elites and the church were able to keep their properties.

Given the nature of the main character’s journey, some research on psychology can be useful for my project as well.

I’ll use this information to start generating ideas about character’s and locations for the story.