A Little Lupen Novelita Chapter 1 Summary

A Soundtrack to Suddenly Becoming an Adult

The novel A Little Lumpen Novelita begins with a solemn mood starting off with the back story of the main character’s parents’ sudden death. This mellow somber mood continues throughout the novel as they piece their new life together. Bianca searches for the missing love she lost with her parents’ death. She seeks out an older, experienced man for the wrong reasons and ends up falling apart even more. This playlist has a dark mood that focuses on the depression and love lusting life Bianca and surrounding characters live. The story begins with a reflection on the narrators past directly after the loss of her parents. The narrator explains that everything the reader is soon to learn about is due
In this moment, she realizes she needs to find a job and support the two of them. “One morning, in front of a bureaucracy who was trying to explain my father had earned X amount of money while he was alive and why we were due less than half of that after his death, my brother started to cry.” (Bolaño 4). “This is the Winter of Our Youth” by Bastille describes the feelings that set in after life for Bianca and her brother went back to “normal”. The song repeats the line “I know the winter is getting colder” multiple times, Bianca has hit the state of winter in this scene by realizing the cold, depressing reality of being an orphan and having to become an adult
“And sometimes I imagined sleeping there every night with Maciste… and convincing him to go out on a walk every once and a while, maybe not to the movies but for a walk, like two normal people and by pretending actually are normal or become normal…” (Belaño 79). The first verse of the song “We Got Love” by Rusty Clayton looks at the things that life has taken away including losses and needs but without these at least there is love. Maciste has lost his sight and fame while Bianca has lost her parents and her normal life but to Bianca at this point at least she has Maciste to hold on it. She then discusses how her job at the salon is not going well due to the lack of sleep she gets but in her head at least she makes love with someone who acts as her