and stories for children. Both‚ Gabriel José García Marquez and Isabel Allende have been considered authors of the style known as magical realism. And‚ similar to Gabriel García Márquez who has been considered as one of Latin America’s greatest 20th-century authors‚ Isabel Allende has been named as third most influential Latino leader in the world. In these terms‚ it is necessary to establish that Gabriel García Márquez and Isabel Allende are two famous Latin American writers‚ but they differ in terms
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life became the symbol of the tragedy.” In the short story‚ “And of Clay Are We Created” Isabel Allende creates a story about a young girl who is trapped beneath gravel and mud. The author uses many different strategies to create this story. Allende utilizes imagery and tone to convey a better understanding of the story and its characters. One literary device Allende uses to enhance the story is imagery. Allende states‚ “..She was also held by the bodies of her brothers and sisters clinging to her
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by Isabel Allende share the theme of family and how family affects them in distinct manners throughout their lives. In “The Death of Ivan Ilych” Ivan develops a very distant and hateful relationship towards his family‚ and in “The Judge’s Wife”‚ the family is crucial to the story because it demonstrates how a family can be broken apart due to poor decisions. In the story “The
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such a thing is possible‚ into a story that stunned so many people. Allende and Rosenblatt both present alike themes in similar and different ways. One way that these two stories are different is that the man in "The Man in the Water" tried to help as many people as he could‚ even when he knew the consequences could be death. But Azucena didn’t really help anyone. Their deaths were also different. 3. Isabel Allende used a realistic fiction story-like approach‚ while Roger Rosenblatt
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of literary work‚ thus setting forth a theme for the piece of literature. In this case‚ this epigraph gives the readers a small gist and theme of what to expect when they read the novel. “The House of Spirits” is a novel which was written by Isabel Allende. This story revolves around family life‚ mainly around two upper-class families; the Del Valle and the Trueba family and was originally written in Spanish‚ then translated to many different languages‚ English being one. The story is set in a Latin-American
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House of the Spirits and One Hundred Years of Solitude brought historical awareness of what occurred in Latin America. Additionally‚ the story is “living on” and it is a celebration of reality in Latin America (Earle 543). Both Garcia Marquez and Isabel Allende wrote about Latin American history in a way that it can be forever remembered. Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude was a huge success because he incorporated all of the motifs from the celebration of reality in Latin America into
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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
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whether it is little things such as trying to get more freedom from your parents or freeing yourself of inner demons‚ which is what Isabel Allende writes about in the "The Judges Wife". The two main characters‚ Nicolas Vidal and Casilda are both trying to find freedom from their inner demons and fight their desires for love and intimacy‚ but Isabel Allende shows that no matter how hard you try‚ everyone must eventually give into their desires. In the "Judges Wife"‚ "Nicolas Vidal
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English 1102 20 March 2012 Society’s monster In “The Judge’s Wife” the author‚ Isabel Allende‚ creates a piece readers can understand to the point of empathy. Because her short story examines human behavior in respect to passions‚ justice‚ and emotion (love) in a manner that one can become fully immersed in the plot. The author makes use of imagery to embellish not only upon her environment‚ but also her characters. Allende presents the ideas of corruption‚ innocence‚ and strictness simply through words
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One story is based around a daydreamer‚ and the other about an adventurer‚ so most wouldn’t expect them to have similar objectives. In both short stories‚ “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber and “Uncle Marcos” by Isabel Allende‚ they dream about different situations happening to them that would not happen in their regular life. Mitty always imagined himself as different people‚ sharing Mitty’s identity‚ doing different and more exciting jobs than the one he had currently. Marcos‚ in
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