The women in the House of the Spirits seem to have great lasting power to enable change. Each woman seems oppressed in their own way, but they appear to rise above it in the feminist movement. This starts with Nivea who begins to advocate for women’s sufferage. Clara on the other hand […]
In Chapter 4, Blanca and Pedro meet for the first time and immediately fall in love. Their love, however, is forbidden because of the division between social classes. Esteban’s character has the most influence throughout the story. He is represented in Clara’s journals and through Alba because he is still alive throughout […]
I believe that the author has complete authority over the material that is written. They can choose what to add, what to embellish, and what to leave out of the story. In House of the Spirits, the author is using bits and pieces of Clara’s journal and Esteban’s personal accounts to tell a […]
The circulation of the Corrido through its’ many singers and different versions indicates that literature is ever changing, at least in this context. I never really thought of literature being this way. It seems that whatever is written in a book is ‘set in stone’ and must be left untouched because it is […]
I believe that much of the Corrido dirrers between the story and the movie. Parades’ collection shows Gregorio Cortez as a man who is a blood thristy killer. However, the movie tells a different story. In the movie, Cortez is described as a family man who killed the sheriff only in response to the killing […]