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    Isabel Allende

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    About the Author It was fifteen years ago that‚ Isabel Allende took the literary world by storm with the publication of The House of the Spirits‚ a novel which chronicled four generations of a Chilean family against the backdrop of Chile’s brutal history. The Times of London heralded Allende as having "the rare ability to blend fantasy and legend with political fact and a well-plotted narrative to produce an enchanted world unlike anything else in contemporary fiction." The New York Times called

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    Isabel Allende Esta escritora y periodista chilena‚ de 70 años‚ es una de las hispanohablantes más leídas del mundo‚ gracias a su enorme imaginación a escrito 19 libros‚ traducidos a 35 idiomas y a vendido más de 57 millones de ejemplares. Su salto a la fama llego con el famoso libro la casa de los espíritus en 1982 el cual fue inspirado por su familia. Por más de 25 años ha dado conferencias y seminarios acerca de los derechos femeninos y de la política latinoamericana. En 1992 en honor a su

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    Isabel Allende writes about Maurizia Rugieri and her struggle for the spotlight and attention. Allende creates a really dislikable character out of Maurizia. From the beginning‚ Maurizia is portrayed as a spoiled and bratty person. With details like “she spoke with unexpected hauteur” and “she left… dragging the doll by one foot”‚ the reader can get a sense this young girl is used to having things her way and would grow into being that way into adulthood. Allende portrays her main character as even

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    Allende and the Value of Reading The value of literacy is something that is very important and can be seen in many ways. Reading can be a medium for self expression or a form of personal freedom. It gives us a window into our feelings and can show us a different perspective on life‚ the environment around us‚ and can cause awareness to social change. It can be a driving force for social empowerment‚ and this could be seen through its social & political importance. For Isabel Allende‚ reading is

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    Short Story Analysis: "The Judges Wife" by Isabel Allende Life is full of unexpected surprises and sometimes we can find ourselves in unpredictable and dangerous situations when the life itself depends on what we do. Most of the time in these cases we do not have a chance to carefully and rationally think over our actions and just improvise trusting our instincts and fate. Here is the example of such a bad fortune: a young woman gets stuck in a motor car in the middle of nowhere. Her husband and

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    The Judges Wife

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    freedom from your parents or freeing yourself of inner demons‚ which is what Isabel Allende writes about in the "The Judges Wife". The two main characters‚ Nicolas Vidal and Casilda are both trying to find freedom from their inner demons and fight their desires for love and intimacy‚ but Isabel Allende shows that no matter how hard you try‚ everyone must eventually give into their desires. In the "Judges Wife"‚ "Nicolas Vidal had always known a woman would cost him his life". (203)

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    Isabel Allende One’s family is often the first source of influence he encounters‚ and the most memorable. Chilean author Isabel Allende shows the importance and complexity of families in her novel The House of the Spirits. Starting out as a letter to her dying grandfather‚ The House of the Spirits became a lengthy saga telling the story of three generations‚ based off Allende’s own family history. Allende’s close relatives were highly involved in the political struggles of her home country‚ which

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    The Judges Wife

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    Ridout English 1102 20 March 2012 Society’s monster In “The Judge’s Wife” the author‚ Isabel Allende‚ creates a piece readers can understand to the point of empathy. Because her short story examines human behavior in respect to passions‚ justice‚ and emotion (love) in a manner that one can become fully immersed in the plot. The author makes use of imagery to embellish not only upon her environment‚ but also her characters. Allende presents the ideas of corruption‚ innocence‚ and strictness simply

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    recently have they begun to be looked at as near equals to men and given a voice. Still‚ in some countries women may be pushed aside and left without a say in important decision-making. In the momentous novel The House of the Spirits‚ by Isabel Allende‚ the wife of each generation is a matriarch in her family. Individually they rise above cultural trends‚ and their husbands or lovers‚ to exercise the fact that women are important. Women can be as powerful as men‚ even in a male-dominated society

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    Isabel Allende was an inspiring Hispanic author‚ who went through many hardships in her life‚ yet she was still able to be successful with her writing career. Isabel mostly wrote for young adolescents‚ (children and young adults). A few of her most well-known novels are The House of Spirits‚ Paula‚ The Stories of Eva Luna‚ and Of Love and Shadows. In her novels‚ she mentioned many of the things she had gone through in her past and expressed her true emotions about the subject. Isabel Allende is a

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