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Vengeance has always been a popular theme for movies and books throughout time. The heroic individual spends the whole story trying to avenge the death of someone very close to them and along the way falls in love with another character. Isabel Allende wrote "An Act of Vengeance" with a surprising twist to it. "She knew she could not carry out the vengeance she had planned because she loved the killer,"(Allende 61) The theme woven through the tale is about how one girl seeks for closure for her father’s death but along the way falls in love with the person who made her vengeful. Allende used the setting, symbolism and the outcome to develop the theme. With those three elements, her story was crafted into a dynamic story about the perfect vengeance.
The story takes place in a town called Santa Teresa where it could be argued around the end of the American civil war. The main character is Rosa, a girl who lives with her father in "a house which rose up proudly on top of a hill"(Allende 57). This house was so beautiful that everyone in the village and in other towns around it knew what it looked like. The house also had a garden with a fountain that was surrounded by magnolias (58). It was created to be something stunning like Rosa. After Tadeo, who is one of the dynamic characters and his men entered the town it was no longer somewhere that was desirable to be. Tadeo finds Rosa in a room and with her dead father beside her, he takes her into another room and takes advantage of her. Even though her neighbours advise her to move to another town Rosa disagrees, rebuilds her house and plans her vengeance against Tadeo. She rebuilds it so well that the town starts to forget about the tragedy and men from nearby come to seek her for a mate. in the final scene the setting is set to be almost the same as when rosa lost her father. Everyone was gathered together to celebrate a memorable event and the people in the village did not know something horrific would happen.
The story takes place in a town called Santa Teresa where it could be argued around the end of the American civil war. The main character is Rosa, a girl who lives with her father in "a house which rose up proudly on top of a hill"(Allende 57). This house was so beautiful that everyone in the village and in other towns around it knew what it looked like. The house also had a garden with a fountain that was surrounded by magnolias (58). It was created to be something stunning like Rosa. After Tadeo, who is one of the dynamic characters and his men entered the town it was no longer somewhere that was desirable to be. Tadeo finds Rosa in a room and with her dead father beside her, he takes her into another room and takes advantage of her. Even though her neighbours advise her to move to another town Rosa disagrees, rebuilds her house and plans her vengeance against Tadeo. She rebuilds it so well that the town starts to forget about the tragedy and men from nearby come to seek her for a mate. in the final scene the setting is set to be almost the same as when rosa lost her father. Everyone was gathered together to celebrate a memorable event and the people in the village did not know something horrific would happen.