Isabel Paterson

He was Powerful and Above All, or So He Thought. The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende, introduce us with characters too fantastic, or too realistic and bring us to the world of magical realism. Throughout the story a reader encounters many of these characters and is wrapped in the story which enables them to see the development of major round characters, such as Esteban Trueba. He is a character that with a few chapters into the book is seen as the evil protagonist. Esteban develops…

In the magical realist novel, The House of Spirits, the author, Isabel Allende, characterizes different characters in different aspects. By using imagery, dialogue, and telling the story from different point of views, the reader gets a grasp of what is going on amongst different characters. Alba is the granddaughter of Esteban Trueba and the daughter of Blanca and Pedro Tereco, who plays a significant role in the novel. Throughout the novel, Alba goes through many changes as she tries to figure…

The Singing Widow Isabel Pantoja, a mother, singer, spouse, bride of Spain, Queen of the Copla, and a widow. La Pantoja was born on the 2nd of August, 1952 to a family of fame and riches. Her mother was a famed flamenco dancer while both her father, famed from a 50’s song, and her granddad, a gypsy singer were living in the spotlight of Spain. Although, these family members lost fame quickly and because of Isabel and her three siblings the family went through many financial disabilities.She…

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…

Debbie Allen: A woman of many talents Debbie Allen is a well known figure in the entertainment industry, who has been around for years and shows no sign of stopping any time soon. Debbie Allen is an actress, dancer, and choreographer. Debbie Kaye Allen was born on January 16th, 1950 in Houston, Texas. Allen was born to the poet Vivian Ayers and a dentist Arthur Allen. She has two siblings. One of her siblings is the famous actress, director, and singer Phylicia Rashad . Her other sibling is…

In the novel The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende a character by the name of Esteban Trueba is seeking power. Throughout the novel, Esteban repeatedly makes the same decisions with one goal in mind, to gain control over others. Esteban comes from a wealthy family that spent all of the family fortunes before he was born. His soon to be wife was accidentally assassinated, and his mother is dying. The only thing his father left him was Tres Marias, a half destroyed estate that he was…

opening of the scene. It gives, us the audience a more hopeful perception of what is come for Rubin. It in the final moments of the scene, when the music is at its loudest and fastest, a voiceover of a boxing commentator say’s “In this corner, from Paterson, New Jersey, wearing the white trunks with black stripes, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter!” The words spoken by the boxing commentator are used by director as metaphor of what is to come from Rubin. The director compares Rubin entering the ring to…

Norman Jewison’s story of Rubin “The Hurricane” Carter gives us his take on the corrupt society during the time of The Black Civil Rights Movement. The overarching theme of this film is imprisonment, this can be broken down into the two main ideas willpower and internal conflict. Throughout the film the many pieces of dialogue, camera shots, and repeated shots or sequences are used to reinforce the overarching theme, imprisonment. These are shown in the “Hole Scene” where Rubin Carter is locked…

“Lean On Me” is a very inspiring movie to watch just because of the way the producer John G. Avildsen put together the movie and based it on a true story. The story shows how you can take something that is negative and shaped it into something that is positive that can help others in the future. A conceited and unusual teacher returns as principal to the high school he had gotten fired from earlier to find it a place of drug abuse, gang violence, and urban despair. The movie “Lean on Me” is a…

I'm innocent. I've committed no crime. A crime's been committed against me. In the film “The Hurricane” directed by Norman Jewison, the main theme is imprisonment. The theme focuses on not only physical imprisonment, but also imprisonment of our mind through misconceptions and internal conflict. Norman through the character Rubin Hurricane Carter also displays the willpower it takes to overcome these types of imprisonment. Norman uses a range of symbolism, shots and dialogue to help the audience…