Isabel Allende

“Chile, province fertile and marked / in the famed region of Antarctica / by remote nations respected / for its strength, nobility, and power” is part of the poem La Araucana, written by Alonso de Ercilla Zúñiga, and considered as the first work piece of literature in Chile. A Spanish soldier, he wrote his epic poem while he spent two years in Chile in the 16th century. As with other dimensions of Chilean social, economic, and cultural life, literature has also been influenced by the European…

There are many terrifyingly horrid topics that have been presented with the introduction to World War II that give insight into the basic German civilian’s life. Isabel Allende states “Write what should not be forgotten,” which ties in perfectly with The Book Thief in that the audience gets to participate in Markus Zusak’s work on the fictional life of the German girl, Liesel, and her newfound poor family as society evolves around them. Through this family's struggles the audience witnesses how…

The swimming contest by Benjamin Tammuz is a story of an Arab boy and an Israeli boy. This took place around the time where there was huge tension between the Arabs and the Jews. There had been much division and segregation amongst the two people. Most of the time, the youth is not up to date with any sort of political conflict or racial division that is occurring at the time. Hatred for the other group is a learned behavior that some youth have not learned yet. Such as the two boys in this…

Jaiden Fallo 2/4/16 World Lit Belief Statements (Existentialism) I believe in the philosophy that people are born as blank slates (tabula rasa). Blank slate, I believe, means the mind does not have innate concepts. Reflexes, urges, or any other involuntary primitive emotions (fear, hunger, pain, etc...), muscle movements are not concepts. That a baby can crawl, eat, breathe, grasp, cry and even walk before ever saying the first word, or concept, it learns is no disproof of tabula rasa. I think…

Inès of My Soul 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…

No less an authority on literature than Leo Tolstoy wrote that there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts. The same is true for English teachers: There are as many reasons to teach literature as there are teachers of literature. The most philosophical teachers could assert that fiction serves as a self-actualizing force, that people read “to set the darkness echoing” (Heaney 1463). Still more could posit that an English class serves as an introduction to the canon, ensuring that…

image in their heads when they listen to someone and that portrayal Is different in everyone 's minds.When something is portrayed for one person another will pick it up in a different meaning. In the story about the photograph of Omayra Sanchez by Isabel Allende, she writes "The wonder of photography is that it dies what no words can." Maybe it is true what they say, a picture speaks more than a thousand words. For a long time that is what satirical cartoons have been doing. Putting up comical…