ere the government has control over the amount of controlthat one person can have over the people, the readers in the United States have very littleto relate to when it comes to the role of the Patron. Although the Patron plays a verysolid role in Latin American society, there is very little comparison to something of thatsort in the U.S. Once again there seems to be one more difference in the cultures thatpresents itself as a gap between the U.S. reader and the relation of situations in LatinAmerican Literature to situations in the reader’s own library of experiences.Although we are provided with a few instances where the references to LatinAmerican culture, such as sport, are parallel to specific examples of United States culture,there is still a vast amount of differences that cannot be compared. The setting of a smallcompletely isolated town such as Comala in Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo, for instancecannot be paired with any strong similarities in U.S. culture that would have enoughsubstance to bring the two cultures into one underlying experience. This is also the samewith the highly visible and integral role of the Patron in Latin American culture incomparison to the United States culture which boasts next to nothing that can be seen as acomparison to the Patron. Pedro Paramo and No One Writes to the Colonel , simply donot contain enough cultural examples that the U.S. reader can relate to though culturalexperiences found in the United States. Had either of the two works presented moreuniversal settings and traditions, The reader based in the cultural setting of main-streamAmerica would have been able to make to aspects of Latin American culture relevant tothemselves through personal experiences with United States culture....
