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

The Tree

"Summer tore the leaves form its burning calendar Luminous and blinding pages fell like golden swords, pages of a unwholesome humidity like the breath of the swamps; pages brief and violent storm, and pages of hot wind, of the wind and that brings the "carnation of the air" and hangs it in the immense gum tree. " (192) - Erika

The Tree

The Tree

A Gum Tree

The Bridge