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'If You Touched My Heart' by Isabel Allende

human being. Her song on the "blond wood psaltery" produced a "crystalline sound like water purling between stones" (82). As this ...

Fantasy and History in The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende III

In five pages this essay discusses how fantasy and history are represented in Isabel Allende's classic novel. There are no other ...

Loneliness and the Works of Isabel Allende

In ten pages this paper discusses how love is invariably accompanied by loneliness in Chilean author Isabel Allende's writings. E...

South America, Visions of Mysticism, Loss, and Fear According to Costa Gavras, Feitlowitz, and Allende

In six pages this report focuses on the visions responsible for the creation of South America's nations as portrayed in Costa Gavr...

Character Analysis of Esteban Trueba in Isabel Allende’s The House of the Spirits

Author Karen Castellucci Cox notes in her literary analysis of The House of the Spirits, "Esteban speaks for an entire class and g...

Book Report on Isabel Allende’s Daughter of Fortune

prominently into Elizas later life. The first part is also when Eliza falls in love with Joaquin Andieta, who dreams of ending th...

Families and Ghosts and Isabel Allende

In five pages Allende's global literary contributions are discussed. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

Isabel Allende's And of Clay We Are Created

The narrator makes phone calls and pleas, as well, in terms of finding a pump. Then there is the girl who has essentially resigned...

"The House of the Spirits": Magical Realism and the Feminist Perspective

a clairvoyant young woman who ends up marrying a man named Esteban Trueba, an industrialist with a penchant for mistreating the pe...

Do Computers Have Creative Ability? An Artificial Intelligence Consideration

on the scene. Certainly the case is silly, but once, we thought computers were frivolous as well. Since we have come to...

Eva Luna by Isabel Allende and Feminism

In five pages this paper, which also features a Spanish translation, discusses feminism within the context of this 1987 novel by I...

Poverty Perspectives of House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

tragic death of her sister Rosa, who was Estebans fiance. Clara does not love Esteban , but her psychic ability leads her to belie...

Comparative Analysis of Three Works of Isabel Allende

then that Of Love and Shadows takes place in a Latin American country that is suffering under a brutal dictatorship. Irene Beltran...

'Voice' of Isabel Allende

In twenty five pages the 'voice' of Isabel Allende is heard through her life and an analysis of her literary works. Fourteen sour...

Magical Realism in the Novels of Isabel Allende

Beth E. Jorgensen defines magical realism as the "use of the literary devices of hyperbole, oxymoron, personification, flashback a...

House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende and Intertextuality

In five pages this report analyzes this brief novel in terms of its intertextuality. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

The Infinite Plan by Isabel Allende

In five pages a thematic analysis of Allende's 1991 novel is presented. There are no other sources listed....

House of Spirits by Isabel Allende

In five pages the characters of Uncle Marcos and Nicolas are contrasted and compared in terms of similarities in relationships, in...

Children in House of Spirits by Isabel Allende II

In six pages this essay discusses children both legitimate as well as illegitimate as represented in the novel according to Esteba...

Anger of the Author Revealed in Of Love and Shadows by Isabel Allende

In five pages this report discusses the author's anger and her spiritual strength and determination as they manifest themselves in...

Esteban in House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

unstable sister, Claras calm acceptance of all sort of psychic phenomenon as well as his countrys political passage from the rule ...

Identity Formation for Girls

A 3 page essay on 3 narratives. There is a bond between mothers and daughters that is typically more intense throughout the lifesp...

Isabel, Rejection, and The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

explore and make her own path instead of taking the predictable and traditional route (Summary of "Portrait of a Lady", 2004)....

Isabel of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon

In seven pages fifteenth century Spain is considered within the context of Ferdinand and Isabel's reign and the unification which ...

Chilean Torture and Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman and The Postman by Antonio Skarmeta

it comes to writing about the issues of Chilean torture for which they are so well known. Both Skarmetas The Postman and Dorfmans...

Late Twentieth Century History and Politics of Chile

of reasons, would spin into an economic plummet. One of these reasons was the collapse of the nitrate market, a market which has...

Importance of Supporting Characters in Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits and Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina

In six pages this paper examines why the supporting characters in these novels are important. There is 1 source cited in the bibl...

Isabelle Allende's The House of the Spirits and the Character of Clara

relatively quiet, yet ominous woman. We note that she is clearly a very "mysterious person, which attracts Esteban to her and w...

Isabelle Allende's House of Spirits and the 1993 Film Version

fiance Rosa (Williams and Garrett). Clara, in both the book and movie, is truly psychic and her powers are a intriguing feature ...

After Chancellorsville: Letters from the Heart

a Rebel and as such Dunn did not receive any letters from her for awhile. It was also at this time that he became wounded severely...