Clara In The House Of The Spirits

The House of the Spirits, illustrates a family saga of the Trueba and de Valle family. The families's passions, struggles, and secrets are carried for over three generations. Although the family holds respectable status within their society, the bond between one another is delicate. The family's horrific and violent past finally catches up to their present allowing each family member to grow.
The novel, The House of the Spirits written by Isabel Allende presents the heroine Clara. Clara, a carefree and eccentric girl navigates herself in the world with simplistic and open minded views. Clara who lives in a high financial status never cares for the materialistic world. Clara lives in the spiritual world, always floating somewhere elses never in the present. Clara does not go through major changes other than having to learn domestic life in her years of motherhood …show more content…
Clara grows up in the twentieth century Chile, from the capital and countryside. Ideas of communism and socialism along with capitalism float around Chile during Clara’s life span. In the beginning the novel, the country senses no political phenomenon but once the story becomes to unravel presents an uproar of political conflict. The heroine Clara serves as a quintessential role in the family as she takes the role as a spiritual caregiver in a dysfunctional family. Clara’s call to adventure is to help bring clarity into a world of chaos. The author of the novel, emphasizes Clara’s role as a bringer of spiritual enlightenment by illustrating the writing style of a storyteller, as an authentic and organic sense of an oral telling of the story. Allende emphasises repetition and run on sentences in order to illustrate a stream of consciousness to the story, “I didn't know that loneliness would never leave me, and that the only person I would ever have close to me