'And Of Clay We Are Made'

Within the story ‘And of Clay We Are Made’, the author Isabel Allende has made an indifferent theme for which the reader can adorn to their such thoughts of this sad poetic story consisting of such human suffering. For one poetic theme you can use, ‘Hope lies in those who choose to have faith in others’. Perhaps this theme can be twisted between both the characters Rolf Carle and Azucena- ‘Lilly’. Add a statement about what literary elements you will use to prove your theme.
This is a separate paragraph. In the suffering of the story Rolf Carle is a reporter on a mission to a small town where a volcano has exploded trapping poor Azucena who has little faith left in her with the outcome. Struggling to save her Rolf has little time and no medical help nor the equipment to help her deep down in the foreign clay trapping the young girl. The narrator, the author herself fallen for Rolf wishes her love to change back to who he was before he realized he couldn’t save the girl in the end. Isabel gives such powerful themes in such a short story like, ‘Hope lies in those who have faith in others’. An example of
To conclude man vs self is when Rolf realizes he was actually the one controlled by fear, ‘He was Azucena; he was buried in the clayey mud; his terror was not the distant emotion of an almost forgotten childhood, it was a claw sunk in his throat.’ Rolf was struggling with his past so long that he can no longer run from it. For man vs nature it’s Rolf against the clay not so much as Azucena because Azucena accepted her fate as Rolf battled with saving the young girl from such a horrible death. In the sentence, ‘...like her, he found himself trapped in the pit with no escape, buried in life,..’ figuratively he was talking about his past but he seemed to struggle against the fact that he couldn’t save her from the mud like he hasn’t done for