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Magical Realism 2

Magical Realism

Death and the Compass

Guest Worksheet

Title: The School Teacher's Guest              Author: Isabel Allende       Year of Publication: 1989           Genre/Sub-genre: Short story, fiction, legend, folklore

Language Style: revenge     Tone: Mocking, sarcastic, serious 

Place/Setting: Agua Santa-small town, boarding house (213), The Pearl of the Orient (213), Ramped Mango Forest (220) The school teacher's house

Doll Worksheet

Title: The Doll Queen            Author: Carlos Fuentes (Mexico)                Year of Publication: 1964                                              

Genre/Sub-genre: short story, mystery, coming of age

Language Style: symbolic realism, elegant, a memory

Tone: sad, serious, nostalgic, reminiscent, dream-like

Place/Setting:The park (210) childhood neighborhood, Amilamia's house, walking on the street, The Bureau of Records. afternoon, shadows, a city park, a concrete bench vs wrough-iron green-painted bench(210), " the sun offends me" (213), a damp park (213), a one story house-with an azotea(212)

Death Worksheet

Title: Death and the Compass                          Author: Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina)

Year of Publication: 1942                               Genre/Sub-genre: Short Story/Mystery/Detective 

Language Style: erudite, convoluted, sophisticated, suspence 

Tone: Dark, Suspenseful, thrilling, adventurous, misdirection, misterious.

Place/Setting:

• City:
• Hotel du Nord:
• the paint shop:
• Liverpool House:
• villa Tristle-le-Roy:

Clay Worksheet

Title: “And Of Clay Are We Created”            Author: Isabel Allende

Year of Publication:  1988                          Genre/Sub-genre: Short Story

Language Style: extraordinary, dramatic, first person

Tone: heroic, introspective, surreal, dark

Place/Setting: “The towns in the valley” (320), in the mud, South America (329), National Television station

Social Class: lower class and middle class