Friday, May 8, 2015

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

Monday, May 4, 2015

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.

Sunday, May 3, 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