Inès of My Soul
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Ines of My Soul is a book written by Isabel Allende and published in 2006. The novel, chronologically divided in 6 parts, narrates the story of Ines Suarez based on the history of her real homonym predestined to live as a seamstress in Extremadura (Spain) and who will finally participate to the conquest and the foundation of Chile through several wars against the local Indians.
Summary
The first chapter covers the years from 1500 to 1537, and begins in the city of Santiago de Nueva-Extremadura in Chile. Ines, feeling she is on the verge of dying, ask her daughter-in-law Isabella to write her memories. She starts by talking about the death of her beloved husband Rodrigo de Quiroga and of her actual situation as “highly placed senora” within the kingdom of Chile. Her memories begin by the description of her family and her hometown in the city of Plascencia where she met her …show more content…
After having divided the forces of Spaniards, the Indians attacked the city and almost destroyed it. In the fifth chapter (1542-1549), Valdivia send Monroy to seek help in Peru to bring the decline of the city down. Hopefully for the settlers, Monroy found help and the link with Peru allow the Chile to be prosperous again. Meanwhile, Pedro successfully helps the royal troops to takedown Pissarro. However, he had to coped with a trial because of his enemies and have to break up with Ines that will marry Rodrigo de Quiroga. The sixth chapter opens on the betrayal of Felipe, an Indian adopted by the Spaniards that will became a ferocious and tactician warlord for the Mapuche: Lautaro. With the information he gathered by growing up with the huincas (Spaniards), he’s able to defeat them several times and even kill Pedro de Valdivia. However, meanwhile, Rodrigo made the city prosperous and the Indians stopped fighting at the death of
Paper 1
Ines of My Soul is a book written by Isabel Allende and published in 2006. The novel, chronologically divided in 6 parts, narrates the story of Ines Suarez based on the history of her real homonym predestined to live as a seamstress in Extremadura (Spain) and who will finally participate to the conquest and the foundation of Chile through several wars against the local Indians.
Summary
The first chapter covers the years from 1500 to 1537, and begins in the city of Santiago de Nueva-Extremadura in Chile. Ines, feeling she is on the verge of dying, ask her daughter-in-law Isabella to write her memories. She starts by talking about the death of her beloved husband Rodrigo de Quiroga and of her actual situation as “highly placed senora” within the kingdom of Chile. Her memories begin by the description of her family and her hometown in the city of Plascencia where she met her …show more content…
After having divided the forces of Spaniards, the Indians attacked the city and almost destroyed it. In the fifth chapter (1542-1549), Valdivia send Monroy to seek help in Peru to bring the decline of the city down. Hopefully for the settlers, Monroy found help and the link with Peru allow the Chile to be prosperous again. Meanwhile, Pedro successfully helps the royal troops to takedown Pissarro. However, he had to coped with a trial because of his enemies and have to break up with Ines that will marry Rodrigo de Quiroga. The sixth chapter opens on the betrayal of Felipe, an Indian adopted by the Spaniards that will became a ferocious and tactician warlord for the Mapuche: Lautaro. With the information he gathered by growing up with the huincas (Spaniards), he’s able to defeat them several times and even kill Pedro de Valdivia. However, meanwhile, Rodrigo made the city prosperous and the Indians stopped fighting at the death of