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

When I was

Ultima

Esmeralda

If You Touched Worksheet

Title: If You Touched My Heart     Author: Isabel Allende      
Year of Publication: 1989 Genre/Sub-genre: Short story, drama, gothic

Tenorio at his bar

Tenorio at his bar with some buddies 

The Márez Brothers

Belisa

Hortencia

Communion

The three brothers

Returning from war

Los Riscos Cave

Military

Evangelina

Abandoned Mill

Narciso's Death

The hiding cave

Rosa

ultima

Carlos and his books

Narciso's Death

La Virgen de la Guadalupe

The town is named after this virgin.

Jenny and her bike

Lieutenant Juan de Dios Ramirez

Plucking a chicken

The bike

Figurative Language

Freedom

Allende Article by Bomarito

Gale Virtual Reference Library

"Allende, Isabel: Introduction." Feminism in Literature: A Gale Critical Companion. Ed. Jessica Bomarito and Jeffrey W. Hunter. Vol. 5: 20th Century, Authors (A-G). Detroit: Gale, 2005. 39-41. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 20 Apr. 2015.

Magical realism

If you touched

Irene Beltran Alcantara

Irene

Irene's expression upon seeing the corpses in the cave.

Irene is one of the protagonist. She is a beautiful young girl who is engaged to her cousin but falls in love with another man.

Lather

"I would be obliged to shave that beard like any other one, carefully, gently, like that of any customer, taking pains to see that no single pore emitted a drop of blood." (166) - M.Cabrera

The Golden Carp

Lather Worksheet

 

Antonio

Ultima

Márez

Narciso's Death

Captain Gustavo Morante

Gustavo: Irene's cousin/fianceé, is in favor of the dictator, homophobic, machista

Be a minimalist

Bless me

The fire outside Tellez's house

The Tree Worksheet

Title: The Tree        Author: Maria Luisa Bombal (Chile)             Year of Publication: 1982
Genre/Sub-genre: Short Story, slice of life, Drama, Magical realism, Dreamy

Language Style: Poetic, dreamlike, mysterious
Tone: Dramatic, Cluttered, childlike, sad, surreal, introspective

Three wax figures

A witch's coffin

Shadows