The Watcher In The Shadows Summary

In writing there are many places you can draw influences from like songs, other books paintings, etc. But for some people they way they grew up and where is their main effect on the writing and this is very prevalent in The watcher in the shadows. In this book the way the characters react to what is happening in the plot of the book is how the writer Carlos ruiz zafon sees people react in spain. When ruiz was growing up he was under the leadership of dictator Francisco Franco. He sees the different way people think of him as ruler and it shows in the book too.
Francisco franco was a ruling full power dictator that ruled over spain in the early to mid 20 century. He was a totalitarian dictator that ruled from 1936 to 1975 he came into power