Octavio Paz: The Poet and his Revolution.
             Words, either written or spoken, have always been used by some intellectuals to awake in others, ideas and polemics to be discussed and forged into new currents of literature and ideologies; these in turn, will mold the historic events in which such thoughts emerged and at the end will dictate the way we live. Such an intellectual figure was Octavio Paz, Mexican writer, poet and polemical figure of the Twentieth century in Latin American and contemporary world literature.
             Paz was born in Mexico City on March 31, 1914, the son of a lawyer whose ancestors were partly Indian and a mother whose parents had emigrated from Spain. His paternal grandfather was a journalist and novelist who fought with the patriot Benito Juarez against the French occupation of Mexico in the 1860's. His father was a veteran of the Mexican Revolution of 1910 who went into exile to represent the peasant guerrilla leader Emiliano Zapata in the United States (Kandell).
             The whole family had to move to exile, because Emiliano Zapata and his followers were persecuted by the government of Francisco I. Madero. Zapata was assassinated in the year 1919, so the family moved to San Antonio and later to Los Angeles, where Octavio Paz attended kindergarten. [Here was when he got one of the defining experiences of his childhood] . this line was not clear Because he couldn't speak English he was teased by his peers. Another one was when back in Mexico in the 1920's, he felt out of place, lonely and again teased, this time-with the knowledge of English, blue eyes, fair skin and clear brownish hair-for being a "gringo". Later in his autobiographical sketch "Itinerary", he wrote:
             Neuhaus 2
             "Maybe everything I have written about my country has be...